Ecosystem services, the benefits produced by ecosystem functions and structures for human
well-being, have received continuous international attention since the publication of the …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has taken the environmental science and policy
literature by storm, and has become almost the approach to thinking about and assessing …

Abstract Scope, Delineations, and Definitions: Livelihoods, Poverty, and Inequality
Understanding the impacts of climate change on livelihoods and poverty requires examining …

Concern over social equity dominates current debates about payments for ecosystem
services and reduced deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Yet, despite the …

As globalization and other pressures intensify the economic, social and biophysical
connections between people and places, it seems likely that adaptation responses intended …

Oil palm is a highly profitable crop adapted to the humid tropics and the area devoted to this
crop is likely to expand significantly in the future. It has many environmentally favourable …

This paper conceptualizes the REDD+ policy framework as the world's largest experiment in
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). REDD+ promotes the commodification of …

The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program, or REDD+,
has been the international community's first real attempt to create a global forest governance …

A number of international donors, national governments and project proponents have begun
to lay the groundwork for REDD+, but tenure insecurity–including the potential risks of land …

Land-use change, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, is a massive
source of carbon emissions and contributes substantially to global warming,,. Therefore …