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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 optimal supply of environmental services. Moreover, if the poor own resources that give them a comparative ad...


Pattanayak, S.K.Wunder, SvenFerraro, P.J.[Show me the money: do payments supply environmental services in developing countries?]Show me the money: do payments supply environmental services in developing countries?

In the growing literature at the interface of rural livelihood improvement and conservation of natural forests, two overarching issues stand out: (1) How and to what extent use of forest resources do and can contribute to poverty alleviation and (2) How and to what extent poverty alleviation and ...


Sunderlin, William D.Angelsen, A.Belcher, B.Burgess, P.Nasi, RobertSantoso, L.Wunder, Sven[Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview]Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview

This chapter first clarifies the definitions of the three key words in its title--poverty, inequality and economic growth. In particular, the evolution of the concept of poverty is discussed followed by a section on the mechanical and empirical links between income poverty, inequality and growth....


Angelsen, A.Wunder, Sven[Poverty and inequality: economic growth is better than its reputation]Poverty and inequality: economic growth is better than its reputation

In the Andes, demand for water is growing and upland land-use changes are increasing. Water quality, quantity and seasonal flow have thus also become environmental services with potential monetary value. Yet, currently the region’s pioneer PES schemes are not paying for measured environmental ser...


Quinton, M.Wunder, SvenEstrada, R.D.[For services rendered? modeling hydrology and livelihoods in Andean payments for environmental services schemes]For services rendered? modeling hydrology and livelihoods in Andean payments for environmental services schemes

Miombo woodlands cover vast areas of southern Africa. Of comparatively little interest for export-oriented commercial logging, they are part of a complex system of rural land use that integrates woodland management with crops and livestock. There is also evidence that woodland resources are exten...


Dewees, P. A.Campbell, Bruce M.Katerere, Y.Sitoe, A.Cunningham, A.B.Angelsen, A.Wunder, Sven[Managing the Miombo woodlands of Southern Africa: policies, incentives and options for the rural poor]Managing the Miombo woodlands of Southern Africa: policies, incentives and options for the rural poor
Autor: Wunder, Sven

This is an exptract of a paper explores the "state of the art" of the two-way causal links between poverty alleviation and natural tropical forests. Microimpacts of rising poverty can increase or slow forest loss. At the macrolevel, poverty also has an ambiguous effect, but it is probable that hi...


Wunder, Sven[Poverty alleviation and tropical forests: what scope for synergies? (extract)]Poverty alleviation and tropical forests: what scope for synergies? (extract)
Autor: Wunder, Sven

This paper explores the "state of the art" of the two-way causal links between poverty alleviation and natural tropical forests. Microimpacts of rising poverty can increase or slow forest loss. At the macrolevel, poverty also has an ambiguous effect, but it is probable that higher income stimulat...


Wunder, Sven[Poverty alleviation and tropical forests - what scope for synergies?]Poverty alleviation and tropical forests - what scope for synergies?
Autor: Wunder, Sven

This paper explores the "state of the art" of the two-way causal links between poverty alleviation and natural tropical forests. Microimpacts of rising poverty can increase or slow forest loss. At the macrolevel, poverty also has an ambiguous effect, but it is probable that higher income stimulat...


Wunder, Sven[Poverty alleviation and tropical forests: what scope for synergies?]Poverty alleviation and tropical forests: what scope for synergies?
Wunder, Sven[Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidence]Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidence
Wunder, Sven[Backpackers on the green islands: forest-based tourism and poverty alleviation in Brazil [Danish]]Backpackers on the green islands: forest-based tourism and poverty alleviation in Brazil [Danish]

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