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Dillaha, T.Ferraro, P.Huang, M.Southgate, D.Upadhyaya, S.Wunder, Sven[Payments for watershed services: regional syntheses]Payments for watershed services: regional syntheses

Multiple-use forest management (MFM) for timber, non-timber forest products and environmental services is envisioned by many as a preferable alternative to timber-dominant management models. It is praised as a more equitable strategy of satisfying the demands from multiple stakeholders, an ecolog...


García Fernandez, C.Ruiz Perez, M.Wunder, Sven[Is multiple-use forest management widely implementable in the tropics?]Is multiple-use forest management widely implementable in the tropics?

The paper describes the changes in Costa Rican forest policy during the last 30 years from deforestation to payments of environmental services. The current services payment system based on forestry law of 1996 is described. The paper discusses positive and negative experiences of the current paym...


Myatt-Hirvonen, OKanninen, M.[Costa Rican metsät tuottavat ympäristöpalveluja [Finnish]]Costa Rican metsät tuottavat ympäristöpalveluja [Finnish]
Roda, J.M.Mutamba, M.Campbell, Bruce M.Kowero, G.S.[Forests-based livelihoods and poverty reduction: paths from local to global development]Forests-based livelihoods and poverty reduction: paths from local to global development

A new hypothesis suggests that forest cover plays a much greater role in determining rainfall than previously recognized. It explains how forested regions generate large-scale flows in atmospheric water vapor. Under this hypothesis, high rainfall occurs in continental interiors such as the Amazon...


Sheil, DouglasMurdiyarso, Daniel[How forests attract rain: an examination of a new hypothesis]How forests attract rain: an examination of a new hypothesis
Autor: Wunder, Sven

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[Are direct payments for environmental services spelling doom for sustainable forest management in the tropics?]Are direct payments for environmental services spelling doom for sustainable forest management in the tropics?
Reddy, V. R.Rout, S. K.Pavelic, Paul[Underground taming of floods in the Ganges basin: technologies, institutions and policies]Underground taming of floods in the Ganges basin: technologies, institutions and policies

A major challenge in trading ecosystem services is the need to quantify and commoditise services, for monitoring and verification as well as for trade. This is relatively straightforward for goods such as forest honey or shade-grown coffee, but potentially complex for services such as water purif...


Meijaard, E.Sheil, DouglasGuariguata, M.R.Nasi, RobertSunderland, T.C.H.Putzel, L.[Ecosystem services certification: Opportunities and constraints]Ecosystem services certification: Opportunities and constraints
Ibarra, E.[The profitability of forest protection versus logging and the role of payments for environmental services (PES) in the Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica]The profitability of forest protection versus logging and the role of payments for environmental services (PES) in the Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica

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