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Autor: Wunder, Sven

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[The efficiency of payments for environmental services in tropical conservation]The efficiency of payments for environmental services in tropical 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.Wunscher, T.Wunder, Sven[Increasing the efficiency of conservation spending: the case of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica]Increasing the efficiency of conservation spending: the case of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica
Autor: Wunder, Sven

What policy lessons derive from the half-century of banana expansion in the coastal region? For that whole period bananas had a catalytic role in promoting coastal deforestation. At first, this was mostly through direct banana frontier expansion. Later the gradual settlement effects proved key. M...


Wunder, Sven[Ecuador goes bananas: incremental technological change and forest loss]Ecuador goes bananas: incremental technological change and forest loss
Autor: Wunder, Sven

A main target of environmental campaigns to save the rainforest has been to stop oil operations from damaging tropical forests. However, there is more to the oil-and-forest story than meets the eye. A comprehensive study of long-run land use changes in eight tropical oil-producing countries shows...


Wunder, Sven[Does oil wealth help conserve the forests?]Does oil wealth help conserve the forests?

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, SvenWertz-Kanounnikoff, S.Morino-Sanchez, R.[Pago por servicios ambientales: una nueva forma de conservar la biodiversidad]Pago por servicios ambientales: una nueva forma de conservar la biodiversidad

This paper provides a global review of the link from forests to poverty alleviation. Definitions are clarified and the key concepts and indicators related to livelihoods and policy reduction and prevention are explored--distinguishing between the analysis and the measurements of poverty. Reviewin...


Angelsen, A.Wunder, Sven[Exploring the forest--poverty link: key concepts, issues and research implications]Exploring the forest--poverty link: key concepts, issues and research implications
Micol, LAndrade, J.Borner, J.Roberta, S.Wunder, Sven[Redução das emissões do desmatamento e da degradação (REDD): potencial de aplicação em Mato Grosso]Redução das emissões do desmatamento e da degradação (REDD): potencial de aplicação em Mato Grosso

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