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...
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.
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Pagiola, S.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: an overview of the issues]
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Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: an overview of the issues
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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[When payments for environmental services will work for conservation]
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When payments for environmental services will work for conservation
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.
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Wunder, Sven
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Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.
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Hyman, Glenn
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Nascimento, N
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[Forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon: Costs and income effects]
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Forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon: Costs and income effects