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 …

Relational values from a cultural valuation perspective: how can sociology contribute to the evaluation of ecosystem services?

H Ishihara - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Relational values are socially constructed through recursive relationships
between structure and individual cultural practices.•Relational values are shared and …

Beyond market logics: Payments for ecosystem services as alternative development practices in the global south

E Shapiro‐Garza, P McElwee… - Development and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives, which provide financial
incentives for management practices thought to increase the production of environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Culture and agricultural biodiversity conservation

Y Wang, S Schaub, D Wuepper, R Finger - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Farmers' behavior towards sustainable agricultural production is key to reducing the
environmental footprint of agriculture and conserving biodiversity. We investigate the causal …

[HTML][HTML] What motivates communities to participate in forest conservation? A study of REDD+ pilot sites in Cross River, Nigeria

U Isyaku - Forest Policy and Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Market-based forest governance mechanisms such as reducing emissions from
deforestation and degradation (REDD+) are implemented in many forests rich countries to …

Climate change: Personal responsibility and energy saving

D Boto-García, A Bucciol - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We study at the individual level the connection between actions to reduce energy
consumption and beliefs about the personal responsibility for climate change mitigation …

In-kind conservation payments crowd in environmental values and increase support for government intervention: A randomized trial in Bolivia

T Grillos, P Bottazzi, D Crespo, N Asquith… - Ecological Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
There is growing use of economic incentives such as Payments for Ecosystem Services
(PES) to encourage sustainable land management. An important critique is that such …

[HTML][HTML] On the role of social equity in payments for ecosystem services in Latin America: A practitioner perspective

B Lliso, U Pascual, S Engel - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the main debates surrounding payments for ecosystem services (PES) is to what
extent should PES design focus on social equity concerns. While much of the debate is …

Exploring the potential contribution of green microfinance in transformations to sustainability

F Huybrechs, J Bastiaensen, G Van Hecken - Current opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review, we explore the potential of green microfinance to contribute to transformations
to sustainability. Green microfinance aims for environmental objectives in addition to …

Silencing agency in payments for ecosystem services (PES) by essentializing a neoliberal 'monster'into being: a response to Fletcher & Büscher's 'PES conceit'

G Van Hecken, V Kolinjivadi, C Windey, P McElwee… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this commentary we respond to Fletcher and Büscher's (2017) recent article in this journal
on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) as neoliberal 'conceit'. The authors claim that …