This paper reviews the findings from the last 20 years on the behavioural factors that
influence farmers, decisions to adopt environmentally sustainable practices. It also proposes …

Payments for environmental services (PES) have become a popular approach to address
environmental degradation. However, evidence on its effectiveness is scarce and rather …

Forest carbon enhancement provides a low-cost opportunity in climate policy, but needs
efficient policy design to be implemented. This paper reviews studies in economics on …

With the rapid development of human society, the self-regulation ability of ecosystem
services has lagged far behind the degree of human destruction. As an effective …

Expansion of Hevea brasiliensis rubber plantations is a resurgent driver of deforestation,
carbon emissions, and biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian rubber extent is …

Ecological forests play a key role in the maintenance of urban ecological security in Beijing,
and 91% of these ecosystems are located in mountain areas. To better address the issues …

The ecosystem services provision is constantly under threat by anthropogenic pressures,
especially which is mainly related to land use changes. A solution proposed to address …

This special issue contains seven papers on'Payments for ecosystem services and their
institutional dimensions: Institutional frameworks and governance structures of PES …

Annually, nearly 500 gigatonnes of CO2 are exchanged between terrestrial ecosystems and
the atmosphere, and this exchange is clearly affected by human activities related to the …

We develop a model of deforestation using a real option on agricultural land conversion and
establish an important link between agricultural commodity price volatility and forest loss …