In a rising urban age planning for cities around the globe is increasingly based on
assessments of ecosystem services, making enhanced considerations of ecosystem service …

Every year from 2000 to 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica.
This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's …

Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) mechanisms leverage economic and social
incentives to shape how people influence natural processes and achieve conservation and …

Abstract Research on Payments for Environmental Services has only recently started to pay
attention to motivation" crowding", ie the effect that such rewards might have on either …

With the escalating uncertainties and surprises faced in responding to environmental and
natural resource challenges has come growing recognition of the need to manage such …

This article synthesizes the growing empirical literature on transaction costs to identify
pragmatic design recommendations for environmental and natural resource policies. The …

Current agri-environmental policies are facing challenges to protect the environment,
including in delivering water quality improvements. These difficulties are mainly due to …

Many cities are confronted with both water scarcity and urban flooding as centralized water
infrastructures becoming increasingly inadequate in a changing climate. Decentralized …

Farmers' use of fungicides and insecticides constitutes a major threat to biodiversity that is
also endangering agriculture itself. Landscapes could be designed to take advantage of the …