The concept of payments for ecosystem services (PES) is probably the most promising innovation in conservation since Rio 1992, slowly but certainly to expand in the tropics. In a global context of stagnating or even decreasing public funding for biodiversity conservation, PES have the potential b...
Wunder, Sven
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Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.
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[Payments for ecosystem services: a new way of conserving biodiversity in forests]
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Payments for ecosystem services: a new way of conserving biodiversity in forests
Asquith, N.M.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Pagos por servicios hídricos: las conversaciones de Bellagio]
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Pagos por servicios hídricos: las conversaciones de Bellagio
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?
Wunder, Sven
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[Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidence]
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Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidence
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
Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade-offs by bridging the interests of landowners and external actors through compensations. Theoretical assessments praise the advantages o...
Wunder, Sven
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[The efficiency of payments for environmental services in tropical conservation]
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The efficiency of payments for environmental services in tropical conservation
Asquith, N.M.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Payments for watershed services: the Bellagio conservation]
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Payments for watershed services: the Bellagio conservation
Payments for environmental services (PES) are an increasingly used instrument both for financing and implementing conservation. The Costa Rican national PES scheme is often considered as a leading model in this regard. We find that improved targeting could substantially increase the efficiency of...
Engel, S.
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Wunscher, T.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Increasing the efficiency of conservation spending: the case of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica]
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Increasing the efficiency of conservation spending: the case of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica
This paper presents a description and analysis of payment for environmental services (PES) schemes worldwide that aims to allow us to understand their logic, scope, and implementation requirements, in particular in relation to preconditions prevailing in developing countries.
Wunder, Sven
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Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.
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Morino-Sanchez, R.
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[Pago por servicios ambientales: una nueva forma de conservar la biodiversidad]
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Pago por servicios ambientales: una nueva forma de conservar la biodiversidad
Wunder, Sven
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[When payments for environmental services will work for conservation]
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When payments for environmental services will work for conservation