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Show Me the Money: Do Payments Supply Environmental Services in Developing Countries?
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Many of the services supplied by nature are externalities as mentioned in this paper, and economic theory suggests that some form of subsidy or contracting between the beneficiaries and the providers could result in an o...Abstract:
Many of the services supplied by nature are externalities. Economic theory suggests that some form of subsidy or contracting between the beneficiaries and the providers could result in an o...read more
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Realising Redd+: National strategy and policy options
Arild Angelsen,Maria Brockhaus,Markku Kanninen,Erin O. Sills,William D. Sunderlin,S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a performance-based payment for environmental services (PES) based on secure tenure, solid carbon data, and transparent governance for forest owners and users.
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Revisiting the concept of payments for environmental services
TL;DR: The authors revisited the payments for environmental services (PES) concept and reviewed existing PES definitions, and proposed a modified narrow PES definition, outlining conditionality as the single defining feature, avoiding the buyer-seller terms, and linking PES to offsite externalities.
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Social Equity Matters in Payments for Ecosystem Services
Unai Pascual,Jacob Phelps,Eneko Garmendia,Katrina Brown,Esteve Corbera,Adrian Martin,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Roldan Muradian +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown how the equity impacts of PES can create positive and negative feedbacks that influence ecological outcomes, and cautioned against equity-blind PES, which overlooks these relationships as a result of a primary and narrow focus on economic efficiency.
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Payments for ecosystem services: A review and comparison of developing and industrialized countries
Sarah Schomers,Bettina Matzdorf +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed 457 articles obtained in a structured literature search in order to present an overview of the PES literature and identify the major foci of overall PES research.
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Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions
Roldan Muradian,Murat Arsel,Lorenzo Pellegrini,Fikret Adaman,B. Aguilar,Bina Agarwal,Esteve Corbera,D. Ezzine de Blas,Joshua Farley,Géraldine Froger,Eduardo García-Frapolli,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,John M. Gowdy,Nicolas Kosoy,J. F. le Coq,Pieter Leroy,Peter H. May,Philippe Méral,P. Mibielli,Richard B. Norgaard,Begüm Özkaynak,Unai Pascual,Unai Pascual,Walter Pengue,M. Perez,Denis Pesche,Romain Pirard,Jesus Ramos-Martin,Laura Rival,F. Saenz,G. Van Hecken,Arild Vatn,Bhaskar Vira,K. Urama +34 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the suitability of payments for ecosystem services and the most important challenges they face are discussed, while over-reliance on payments as win-win solutions might lead to ineffective outcomes.
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Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues
TL;DR: Payments for environmental services (PES) have attracted increasing interest as a mechanism to translate external, non-market values of the environment into real financial incentives for local actors to provide environmental services as mentioned in this paper.
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Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty
Ariel Fiszbein,Norbert Schady,Francisco H. G. Ferreira,Margaret Grosh,Niall Keleher,Pedro Olinto,Emmanuel Skoufias +6 more
TL;DR: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are programs that transfer cash, generally to poor households, on the condition that those households make pre specified investments in the human capital of their children.
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TL;DR: The recently completed research program (TREES) employing the global imaging capabilities of Earth-observing satellites provides updated information on the status of the world's humid tropical forest cover, indicating that the global net rate of change in forest cover for the humid tropics is 23% lower than the generally accepted rate.