Within the new array of 'green' products and services, ecotourism claims to combine environmental responsibility with the generation of local economic benefits that will have both a development impact and serve as conservation incentives. Economic incentives are imperative for nature conservation...
There is consensus that payments for biodiversity services are a promising conservation tool, yet the implementation of applied schemes has been lagging behind. This paper explores some reasons why potential biodiversity buyers may hesitate. It describes the case of an unsuccessful attempt to est...
Wunder, Sven
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Frost, P.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Iwan, R.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[When donors get cold feet: the community conservation concession in Setulang (Kalimantan, Indonesia) that never happened]
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When donors get cold feet: the community conservation concession in Setulang (Kalimantan, Indonesia) that never happened
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.
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Angelsen, A.
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Belcher, B.
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Burgess, P.
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Nasi, Robert
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Santoso, L.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview]
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Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are being considered worldwide with great interest and expectation. Proposals to create agreements in which beneficiaries of environmental services pay landowners directly for the provision or protection of these services are innovative and promising. But...
Robertson, N.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Fresh tracks in the forest: assessing incipient payments for environmental services initiatives in Bolivia]
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Fresh tracks in the forest: assessing incipient payments for environmental services initiatives in Bolivia
A principal criterion for classifying a tourism operation as 'ecotourism' is that local residents at the site should receive substantial economic benefits, which serve both to raise local living standards and as enhanced incentives for nature conservation. This paper sets out a methodological fra...
Southgate, D.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Paying for watershed services in Latin America: a review of current initiatives]
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Paying for watershed services in Latin America: a review of current initiatives
Dillaha, T.
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Ferraro, P.
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Huang, M.
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Southgate, D.
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Upadhyaya, S.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Payments for watershed services: regional syntheses]
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Payments for watershed services: regional syntheses
Over the past several decades, significant donor funding has been directed to sustainable forest management in the tropics, in the hope of combining forest conservation with economic gains through sustainable use. To date, this approach has produced only modest results in terms of changed silvicu...
Wunder, Sven
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[Are direct payments for environmental services spelling doom for sustainable forest management in the tropics?]
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Are direct payments for environmental services spelling doom for sustainable forest management in the tropics?
Costa Rica was the first developing country to have implemented a nation-wide program of payments for environmental services. We analyze whether the efficiency of the program could be increased through better targeting techniques and propose a targeting mechanism which takes into account the spat...
Wunscher, T.
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Engel, S.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica: increasing efficiency through spatial differentiation]
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Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica: increasing efficiency through spatial differentiation
Market mechanisms for forest environmental services are a new approach for conservation, but there is also an increasing interest in the derived developmental benefits of these mechanisms. We first propose a conceptual framework for future research on the livelihood impacts of environmental servi...
Grieg-Gran, M.
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Porras, I.
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Wunder, Sven
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[How can market mechanisms for forest environmental services help the poor?: preliminary Lessons from Latin America]
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How can market mechanisms for forest environmental services help the poor?: preliminary Lessons from Latin America