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

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

Oil palm is one of the world's most rapidly increasing crops. We assess its contribution to
tropical deforestation and review its biodiversity value. Oil palm has replaced large areas of …

Payments for environmental services (PES) are an innovative approach to conservation that
has been applied increasingly often in both developed and developing countries. To date …

The Environmental Economics and the Ecological Economics perspectives on payments for
environmental services (PES) propose rather different views on how to define PES, its key …

This chapter assesses the literature on the economics of climate change adaptation,
building on the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) and the increasing role that economic …

Recently in Vietnam, a coalition of international NGOs, donors and government officials
have been promoting market-based forest conservation projects in the form of payments for …

In this paper, introducing the special issue on “Payments for Ecosystem Services and Their
Institutional Dimensions: Analyzing the Diversity of Existing PES Approaches in Developing …

Over the past decade,“Payments for Environmental Services”(PES) have received a great
deal of attention as a natural-resource management approach. We propose a revised …

There is a limited understanding of the conditions under which payments for ecosystem
services (PES) programmes achieve improvements in ecosystem service (ES) flows …