Payments for environmental services: Past performance and pending potentials

S Wunder, J Börner, D Ezzine-de-Blas… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We develop a theory of change for payments for environmental services (PES) to review
their imminent strengths and weaknesses in light of a growing body of impact evaluation …

[PDF][PDF] The devil in the detail: a practical guide on designing payments for environmental services

S Engel - … Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2016 - nowpublishers.com
Payments for environmental services (PES) have become a popular approach to address
environmental degradation. However, evidence on its effectiveness is scarce and rather …

The effectiveness of payments for environmental services

J Börner, K Baylis, E Corbera, D Ezzine-de-Blas… - World …, 2017 - Elsevier
We adopt a theory-based approach to synthesize research on the effectiveness of payments
for environmental services in achieving environmental objectives and socio-economic co …

From principles to practice in paying for nature's services

S Wunder, R Brouwer, S Engel, D Ezzine-de-Blas… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Payments for Environmental Services (PES) constitute an innovative economic
intervention to counteract the global loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. In theory …

Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation

T Hayes, F Murtinho, H Wolff, MF López-Sandoval… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) programmes seek to promote conservation via
payments for desired resource-use behaviours. While PES has been found to produce some …

The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration

AM Tedesco, PHS Brancalion… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Forest restoration has been proposed as a scalable nature-based solution to achieve global
environmental and socio-economic outcomes and is central to many policy initiatives, such …

The impacts of agroforestry interventions on agricultural productivity, ecosystem services, and human well‐being in low‐and middle‐income countries: A systematic …

SE Castle, DC Miller, PJ Ordonez… - Campbell Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Agroforestry, the intentional integration of trees or other woody perennials with
crops or livestock in production systems, is being widely promoted as a conservation and …

Payment for ecosystem services programs in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Effective but not enough

PGC Ruggiero, JP Metzger, LR Tambosi, E Nichols - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) are economic incentives intended to generate
conservation benefits, principally on private properties. The global portfolio of PES programs …

Permanence of avoided deforestation in a Transamazon REDD+ project (Pará, Brazil)

CD Carrilho, G Demarchi, AE Duchelle, S Wunder… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rigorous impact evaluations of local REDD+ (reduced emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation) initiatives have shown some positive outcomes for forests, while well …

The impacts of agroforestry on agricultural productivity, ecosystem services, and human well‐being in low‐and middle‐income countries: An evidence and gap map

DC Miller, PJ Ordoñez, SE Brown… - Campbell …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
2.1. Background Agroforestry—the integration of trees with other agricultural practices on the
same piece of land—is widespread across L&MICs. High‐level policy documents in many …