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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Payments for Ecosystem Services"”.
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Comparative Legal Frameworks for Payments for Ecosystem Services
In recent decades, the concept of ecosystem services has deepened our appreciation of the myriad benefits provided by ecosystems, and the risks to human societies posed by ecosystem degradation. There is a growing realisation that problems traditionally considered to be outside the environmental …
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DEMAND-SIDE AND SUPPLY-SIDE PARTICIPATION IN PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (PES): INSIGHTS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA
… participation from: ‘buyers’ willing to pay for ecosystem services, ‘sellers’ willing to alter their land management practices, and ‘facilitators’ that can encourage participation through institutional change. This thesis investigates supply-side (seller and facilitator) and demand-side …
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Payments for Ecosystem Services - Ausgestaltung und Umweltökonomische Effekte am Beispiel des Chinas Sloping Land Conversion Program
… and Development Projects (ICDP) und Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) die wichtigsten Erhaltungsparadigmen,um das Einkommen der Landwirte nachhaltig zu erhöhen und die Umwelt zu erhalten. In der Praxis waren die beiden Methoden jedoch nicht immer erfolgreich, da das ursprüngliche Ziel „Trend …
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The Water/Energy Nexus: Climate, Consumption and Ecosystem Services
… treatment systems. (Zimmerman, 2017) Water for power generation and/or water supply depend on ecosystem services. The ecosystem services and resource trade-offs embedded in provision of a watt of power and an ounce of potable water, however, have yet to be comprehensively enumerated nor have …
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Switching to Switchgrass: Pathways and consequences of bioenergy switchgrass entering the Midwestern landscape
… (Panicum virgatum L.) as a potential feedstock for next generation biofuels to help meet this goal because of its excellent agronomic and environmental characteristics. With national policy supporting the development of a switchgrass to bioenergy industry two key questions arise: 1) Under what …
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Interactions between community traditions and geospatial technology in natural resource management: case studies from common property regimes in rural southern Mexico
… progress towards sustainable development. Information technology, such as Geographic Information Systems, may be able to play an important role in addressing these challenges. In this study an experiment with introducing geospatial technology was conducted with four rural communities at …
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Economic incentives for the sustainable management and conservation of tropical forests
… 13 of my publications on economic incentives for forest management and conservation in tropical countries (with a regional bias towards Latin America), including several papers focused on participatory forest management or community-based conservation. The papers show how my thinking has …
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Motivations and incentives for pro-environmental behaviour: the case of silvopasture adoption in the tropical forest frontier
On the frontier of biodiversity-rich tropical forests, how land is used has an important role in buffering the primary ecosystem. Unsustainable small-scale cattle farming endangers soil quality and degrades the landscape. Silvopasture is a type of agroforestry that provides both ecological and …
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Sustainable development: Why is it not delivering on its promises?
… development agenda promised a new era for natural resource management, where the wellbeing of human society would be enhanced through a more sustainable use of natural resources. Several decades on, economic growth continues unabated at the expense of natural capital – as evidenced by …
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Roads, Rights, and Rewards: Three Program Evaluations in Environmental and Resource Economics
… literature shows roads to be strong drivers of deforestation; however, I hypothesize that in some settings the opposite relationship may hold. Roads may (1) increase the relative productivity of labor in non-agricultural sectors, reducing agricultural activity and allowing reforestation; (2) raise …
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Eco-compensation, Water Management and Political Power in China
A growing number of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are being implemented in developing and developed countries alike in order to effect some internalisation of environmental costs. In China schemes under the name of ‘eco-compensation’ are often considered to be similar to PES. …
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Evaluating subsidy programmes for ecological conservation: insights from quasi-experimental and experimental evidence
… declines, the importance of protecting natural ecosystems and endangered species protection has become increasingly evident. This is crucial for ensuring regional ecological security and sustainable development. Due to the intricate relationship between farmers’ activities and their surrounding …
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Nature's contributions to people: socio-economic assessments of strategies to conserve natural capital and guide the sustainable provision and equitable distribution of ecosystem services in developing countries
… of natural resources such as fisheries and forests. This has occurred in part because policy makers and natural resource users and managers, particularly in developing countries, lack information about the outcomes and impacts of current economic incentives that drive natural resource use …
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On the Regulation of Small Actors: Three Experimental Essays about Policies based on Voluntary Compliance and Decentralized Monitoring
<p>Monitoring and enforcement are perhaps the biggest challenges in the design and implementation of environmental policies in developing countries where the actions of many small informal actors cause significant impacts on the ecosystem services and where the transaction costs for the state to …
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Gains and Losses in Ecosystem Services: Trade-off and Efficiency Perspectives
Humans rely on nature for various ecosystem services to enhance their well-being. However, the gains in human well-being have been achieved at the losses in many ecosystem services. One of the key challenges in ecosystem service science is to determine how to manage ecosystems for multiple services …
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HYDRAULIC, GEOSPATIAL, AND SOCIOECONOMIC MODELING OF STRATEGIC FLOODPLAIN RECONNECTION TRADEOFFS ALONG THE LOWER TISZA RIVER (HUNGARY) AND LOWER ILLINOIS RIVER (ILLINOIS, U.S.A)
… by levees, facilitating "reclamation" for agriculture and resulting in an estimated loss of over 90% of historical wetlands. While levees have been successful in preventing catastrophic flooding for a century, Lower Tisza flood stages continue to rise partially due to aggradation and …