The increasing pressure on agricultural production systems to achieve global food security
and prevent environmental degradation necessitates a transition towards more sustainable …

Background: Conservation decisions not only impact wildlife, habitat, and environmental
health, but also human wellbeing and social justice. The inclusion of safeguards and equity …

Although conservation efforts have sometimes succeeded in meeting environmental goals at
the expense of equity considerations, the changing context of conservation and a growing …

Increasingly, voluntary conservation programs are targeted at farmers to contribute to
biodiversity conservation through tailored on-farm conservation activities. Such programs …

Eco-compensation is the most important form of compensatory conservation in China.
However, this compensatory mechanism is criticized for vague definition and massive …

Abstract The 2010 Nagoya Protocol under the Convention on Biological Diversity and recent
changes in the policies of major international conservation organizations highlight current …

Interdisciplinary knowledge is necessary to achieve sustainable management of natural
resources. However, research is still often developed in an exclusively disciplinary manner …

Payments for ecosystem services programs (PESPs) are increasingly being adopted
globally to enhance sustainability outcomes. There are also hundreds of studies yearly on …

In this article, we analyse key issues in the Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) debate.
We argue that, despite recent advances, PES research remains weakly theorized in social …

The páramos biome of the northern Andes is a collection of high-mountain tropical
grassland wetland ecosystems that provides important ecosystem services including …