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Autor: Wunder, Sven

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...


Wunder, Sven[Ecotourism and economic incentives: an empirical approach]Ecotourism and economic incentives: an empirical approach

Payments for environmental services (PES) have attracted increasing interest as amechanism to translate external, non-market values of the environment into real financial incentives for local actors to provide environmental services (ES). In this introductory paper, we set the stage for the rest ...


Engel, S.Pagiola, S.Wunder, Sven[Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: an overview of the issues]Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: an overview of the issues
Autor: Wunder, Sven

Payments for environmental services (PES) are part of a new and more direct conservation paradigm, explicitly recognizing the need to bridge the interests of landowners and outsiders. Eloquent theoretical assessments have praised the absolute advantages of PES over traditional conservation approa...


Wunder, Sven[Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts]Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts

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.Wunder, Sven[Fresh tracks in the forest: assessing incipient payments for environmental services initiatives in Bolivia]Fresh tracks in the forest: assessing incipient payments for environmental services initiatives in Bolivia
Autor: Wunder, Sven

Despite considerable international attention in the field of forest conservation, tropical forests are still disappearing at an unaltered pace. This book gives an economic perspective on the analysis of deforestation. Following a survey of different deforestation definitions, theories and empiric...


Wunder, Sven[The economics of deforestation: the example of Ecuador]The economics of deforestation: the example of Ecuador
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?

Despite recent success in reducing forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon, additional forest conservation efforts, for example, through ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation’ (REDD+), could significantly contribute to global climate-change mitigation. Economic incentives, suc...


Börner, J.Wunder, SvenWertz-Kanounnikoff, S.Hyman, GlennNascimento, N[Forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon: Costs and income effects]Forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon: Costs and income effects

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