In the search for successful community-based conservation models there has been a
substantial focus on payment for ecosystem services. Such payments are measurable inputs …

The effectiveness of incentive-based conservation programs depends on how they influence
and interact with multiple motivations of the participants. Here, we studied an incentive …

Evaluations of the success of different conservation strategies are still in their infancy. We
used four different measures of project outcomes—ecological, economic, attitudinal, and …

Preservation of biodiversity and continued provision of ecosystem services increasingly
relies on environmental conservation on private lands. Despite a multitude of past studies …

Increasingly, natural resource conservation programs refer to participation and local
community involvement as one of the necessary prerequisites for sustainable resource …

Incentives based on extrinsic motivations such as Payments for ecosystem Services (PES)
could negatively affect intrinsic motivations (ie, motivational crowding-out). This effect may …

Conservation should benefit ecosystems, nonhuman organisms, and current and future
human beings. Nevertheless, tension among these goals engenders potential ethical …

Conservation designations such as protected areas are increasing in numbers around the
world, yet it is widely reported that many are failing to reach their objectives. They are …

The paper seeks to advance our understanding of the extent to which the use of economic
incentives can undermine (“crowd out”) or reinforce (“crowd in”) people's intrinsic …

Implementation of biodiversity conservation actions is driven by private contributions and
political decisions (Orr 2003). Social scientists interested in conservation have long …