Payments for ecosystem services: A review and comparison of develo** and industrialized countries

S Schomers, B Matzdorf - Ecosystem services, 2013 - Elsevier
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) received a lot of academic attention in the past
years. However, the concept remains loose and many different conservation approaches are …

[PDF][PDF] The devil in the detail: a practical guide on designing payments for environmental services

S Engel - … Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2016 - nowpublishers.com
Payments for environmental services (PES) have become a popular approach to address
environmental degradation. However, evidence on its effectiveness is scarce and rather …

Revisiting the concept of payments for environmental services

S Wunder - Ecological economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This article revisits the payments for environmental services (PES) concept and reviews
existing PES definitions. Based on Weberian philosophy of science, it is argued that an ideal …

Global patterns in the implementation of payments for environmental services

D Ezzine-de-Blas, S Wunder, M Ruiz-Pérez… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Assessing global tendencies and impacts of conditional payments for environmental
services (PES) programs is challenging because of their heterogeneity, and scarcity of …

Sequestering carbon in soils of agro-ecosystems

R Lal - Food policy, 2011 - Elsevier
Soils of the world's agroecosystems (croplands, grazing lands, rangelands) are depleted of
their soil organic carbon (SOC) pool by 25–75% depending on climate, soil type, and …

Redefining payments for environmental services

L Tacconi - Ecological economics, 2012 - Elsevier
The Environmental Economics and the Ecological Economics perspectives on payments for
environmental services (PES) propose rather different views on how to define PES, its key …

Payments for ecosystem services: rife with problems and potential—for transformation towards sustainability

KMA Chan, E Anderson, M Chapman, K Jespersen… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs are one prominent strategy to address
economic externalities of resource extraction and commodity production, improving both …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: A conceptual framework

JA Fisher, G Patenaude, K Giri, K Lewis, P Meir… - Ecosystem …, 2014 - Elsevier
As interest grows in the contribution of ecosystem services to poverty alleviation, we present
a new conceptual framework, synthesizing insights from existing frameworks in social …

[HTML][HTML] A place-based approach to payments for ecosystem services

MS Reed, K Allen, A Attlee, AJ Dougill, KL Evans… - Global environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are proliferating but are
challenged by insufficient attention to spatial and temporal inter-dependencies, interactions …

Water funds and payments for ecosystem services: practice learns from theory and theory can learn from practice

RL Goldman-Benner, S Benitez, T Boucher… - Oryx, 2012 - cambridge.org
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are emerging worldwide as important mechanisms
to align investments in human and natural well-being. PES projects are often defined as …