This article looks into the scope and equity implications of applying payments for environmental services (PES) as a REDD implementation mechanism in the Brazilian Amazon. We establish a set of economic and institutional preconditions for PES to become a feasible and cost-effective conservation m...
Borner, J.
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Wunder, Sven
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Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.
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Tito, M.R.
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Pereira, L.S.
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Nascimento, N.
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[Direct conservation payments in the Brazilian Amazon: Scope and equity implications]
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Direct conservation payments in the Brazilian Amazon: Scope and equity implications
Armas, A.
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Borner, J.
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Tito, M.R.
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Díaz, L.
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Tapia-Coral, S.C.
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Wunder, Sven
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Reymond, L.
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Nascimento, N.
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[Pagos por servicios ambientales para la conservación de bosques en la Amazonía peruana: un análisis de viabilidad]
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Pagos por servicios ambientales para la conservación de bosques en la Amazonía peruana: un análisis de viabilidad
Many of the services supplied by nature are externalities. Economic theory suggests that some form of subsidy or contracting between the beneficiaries and the providers could result in an optimal supply of environmental services. Moreover, if the poor own resources that give them a comparative ad...
Pattanayak, S.K.
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Wunder, Sven
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Ferraro, P.J.
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[Show me the money: do payments supply environmental services in developing countries?]
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Show me the money: do payments supply environmental services in developing countries?
Durante las dos últimas décadas, varios proyectos de carbono enfocados en la aforestación y reforestación (A/R) han sido implementados en América Latina, y en otros países en desarrollo, sobre todo a pequeña escala. Aunque siendo elegibles para ser financiados por el Mecanismo de Desarrollo Limpi...
Borner, J.
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Wunder, Sven
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Armas, A.
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[Pagos por carbono en América Latina: de la experiencia de proyectos pilotos a la implementación a gran escala]
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Pagos por carbono en América Latina: de la experiencia de proyectos pilotos a la implementación a gran escala
Wunder, Sven
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[PES for improved ecosystem water services in Pimampiro town, Ecuador]
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PES for improved ecosystem water services in Pimampiro town, Ecuador
Payments for environmental services (PES) have the potential to become effective, cost-efficient and equitable instruments for implementing REDD+ on the ground. PES require certain preconditions to be satisfied, in particular land stewardship with ‘the right to exclude third parties’, which is no...
Wunder, Sven
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[Can payments for environmental services reduce deforestation and forest degradation?]
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Can payments for environmental services reduce deforestation and forest degradation?
Wunder, Sven
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Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.
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Ferraro, P.
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[Payments for environmental services and the global environment facility: a STAP advisory document]
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Payments for environmental services and the global environment facility: a STAP advisory document
En Latinoamérica se observa un creciente desarrollo de iniciativas de PSA que aunque están orientadas bajo diferentes principios y criterios, son concurrentes en la reducción de externalidades mediante el reconocimiento social y económico de los servicios ambientales. El crecimiento de esquemas d...
Borda, C.A.
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Moreno-Sánchez, R.P.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Pagos por Servicios ambientales en marcha: la experiencia en la microcuenca de chaina, Departamento de Boyacá, Colombia]
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Pagos por Servicios ambientales en marcha: la experiencia en la microcuenca de chaina, Departamento de Boyacá, Colombia
In the Andes, demand for water is growing and upland land-use changes are increasing. Water quality, quantity and seasonal flow have thus also become environmental services with potential monetary value. Yet, currently the region’s pioneer PES schemes are not paying for measured environmental ser...
Quinton, M.
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Wunder, Sven
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Estrada, R.D.
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[For services rendered? modeling hydrology and livelihoods in Andean payments for environmental services schemes]
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For services rendered? modeling hydrology and livelihoods in Andean payments for environmental services schemes
Miombo woodlands cover vast areas of southern Africa. Of comparatively little interest for export-oriented commercial logging, they are part of a complex system of rural land use that integrates woodland management with crops and livestock. There is also evidence that woodland resources are exten...
Dewees, P. A.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Katerere, Y.
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Sitoe, A.
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Cunningham, A.B.
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Angelsen, A.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Managing the Miombo woodlands of Southern Africa: policies, incentives and options for the rural poor]
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Managing the Miombo woodlands of Southern Africa: policies, incentives and options for the rural poor