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

Payments for environmental services (PES) have attracted increasing interest as a
mechanism to translate external, non-market values of the environment into real financial …

Southeast Asia is a hotspot of tropical deforestation for agriculture. Most of the deforestation
is thought to occur in lowland forests, whereas the region's mountainous highlands undergo …

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

We have compared three cases of payments for water-related environmental services (PES)
in Central America, in terms of socioeconomic background, opportunity costs of forest …

Challenges scholars, policymakers, and resource managers to reexamine long-held
assumptions about" environmental degradation." Through a case study of northern Thailand …

Rapid changes in upland farming systems in Southeast Asia generated predominantly by
increased population pressure and 'market forces' have resulted in widespread land …

We ascertained villagers' perceptions about the importance of forests for their livelihoods
and health through 1,837 reliably answered interviews of mostly male respondents from 185 …

The main focus of this paper is agrobiodiversity and its effects on agricultural production
within agricultural landscapes. The interest is to shed light about the fundamental causes of …

Payments for environmental services (PES), the non-provisioning part of ecosystem
services, target alignment of microeconomic incentives for land users with meso-and …