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 …

Protected areas are leading tools in efforts to slow global species loss and appear also to
have a role in climate change policy. Understanding their impacts on deforestation informs …

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 …

Costa Rica pioneered the use of the payments for environmental services (PES) approach in
develo** countries by establishing a formal, country-wide program of payments, the PSA …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

We review and confirm the claim that credible evaluations of common conservation
instruments continue to be rare. The limited set of rigorous studies suggests that protected …

We investigate a Mexican federal program that compensates landowners for forest
protection. We use matched controls from the program applicant pool to establish …

Payments for environmental services (PES) are popular despite little empirical evidence of
their effectiveness. We estimate the impact of PES on forest cover in a region known for …

Costa Rica's national payment for environmental services (PES) program has inspired a
large body of research, most of which seeks to assess its impacts on deforestation and/or …

Throughout the world, and particularly in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, many of the
poorest people are farmers. Nearly 75 percent of those subsisting on $1 a day live in rural …