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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Payment for Ecosystem Services"”.
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Wetlands: An ecosystem service South Africa can afford to protect: a critical evaluation of the current legal regime and mechanisms to facilitate the use of payment for ecosystem services to the conservation of wetlands in South Africa
… the most significant contribution to people for survival and sustainable development. In South Africa wetlands are considered the most threatened of all the country's ecosystems. South Africa's legal framework governing wetlands recognises the importance of natural infrastructure and its …
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Mixed-use at the landscape scale : integrating agriculture and water management as a case study for interdisciplinary planning
… is believed to support diverse and mutually reinforcing elements within a neighborhood. Agricultural landscapes present an analogous opportunity for mixed-use planning in order to capitalize on the synergies between food production, economic development, water management, biodiversity, energy …
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An assessment of ecological impacts of community-based restoration on communal grasslands in the Drakensberg foothills
… restoration of degraded lands has been conducted for over a decade. In this important water supply region, payment for ecosystem services has been suggested as a means through which to conserve biodiversity, improve veld condition, provide income to local communities, and ensure water security. …
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Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Forest Management: A Case Study of Kam Cha i, Thailand
Optimal forest management strategies are needed to maximize welfare for both local and global forest users. This research will focus on spatial and temporal components within the framework of forest management policy. Particularly, payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs and their effect on …
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Applications of Quantitative Methods in Environmental Economics: Econometrics, Simulation Modelling and Experiments
… systematically differ according to elicitation format has, therefore, called the CV method into question. One possible explanation lies in the proposition that respondents are uncertain about their preferences and that their uncertainty precipitates systematically different responses to …
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Financing nature and development: scaling up private investment in Southern Africa's community-based conservation
… inventory of blended investment options for community-based conservation, including seven types of non-tourism, conservation-related revenue streams. Five of these are ranked positively for scalability, wildlife economy, Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in carbon and restoration, and …
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Local regulatory and economic instruments to encourage tropical forestry conservation : an analysis of the policy process in Costa Rica and Mexico
Forests are the most biologically diverse land ecosystems, providing shelter, jobs, and security to people who depend on them. However, global deforestation continues alarmingly; for decades, people destroyed approximately 13 million hectares (32 million acres) annually, largely in tropical …
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Cocoa yield, nutrients and shade trees in traditional cocoa agroforests in a climate change context: a case study in Bahia, Brazil
… per year. In a world with an increasing demand for chocolate, but with agriculture threatened by climate change, the chocolate industry is worried about a possible shortage of cocoa. Furthermore, growing cocoa is a main cause of deforestation. However, in the state of Bahia, Northeast Brazil, …
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Three Essays in Environmental and Land Economics
… (FAO, 2020). Moreover, agriculture accounts for a significant portion of global deforestation, forest fragmentation, and habitat loss (Defries, Rudel, Uriarte, & Hansen, 2010; Rudel, Defries, Asner, & Laurance, 2009), while consuming 70% of global freshwater and contributing substantially to …
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The discourse and reality of "win-win" interventions for forests and people in the Peruvian Amazon
Local projects aiming to jointly reduce deforestation, climate change and poverty are increasingly popular. Yet, despite widespread claims of “win-win” success, there is growing evidence of significant trade-offs. My doctoral research examines three globally widespread strategies to achieve …
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Conservation of endemic species in China
… other concepts such as umbrella species and payment for ecosystem services have been promoted to conserve the biodiversity. However, questions remain that whether they work, how they work and how we could do better. It is crucial to answer these questions with the data and technology that are …
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The Commodification of Nature: Power/Knowledge and REDD+ in Costa Rica
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is a global carbon trading program intent on mitigating or reversing carbon emissions from forestry in the global south. REDD+ was negotiated at the 2005 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is …
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Precision Agriculture and Its Influence on Agrarian Decision-Making
… excluded from their design, and how they may reinforce or challenge existing power dynamics. This research explores the impact of PA technologies on agricultural decision-making through three distinct study focuses, utilizing a Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) approach. The first study …
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Evaluating the role of market based policy instruments in managing trade-offs between ecosystem services supply and human welfare: case of Uluguru water catchment, Tanzania
… between upstream and downstream beneficiaries for their limited ecosystem services. Although several studies have shown that market-based policy instruments perform better than their command and control counterparts in a variety of socio-economicecological configurations, their relevance to the …