Incentive-based conservation is a promising approach to tropical forest conservation, including within multiple-use protected areas. Here we analyze the environmental impacts of Bolsa Floresta, a longstanding...
There have been few efforts to evaluate whether the positive land use changes induced by conservation interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services (PES) persist once the interventions end...
Use of conditional cash transfers has become widespread in development policy given their success in boosting health and education outcomes. Recently, conditional cash transfers are being used to promote...
The effectiveness of conservation interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services (PES) is often evaluated, if it is evaluated at all, only at the completion of the intervention. Since gains...
The growing use of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) for conservation has fostered a debate on its effectiveness, but the few efforts to date to assess the impact of PES programs have been hampered...
Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short...
Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short...
Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short...
Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short...
The Florestas para a Vida project, which is financed by a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and is being implemented by the World Bank, was designed to address threats to biodiversity and...
This working paper points out that the state of São Paulo is planning to make the Payment for Environmental Services (PSA) an important part of its combination of policies to solve environmental problems...
The Florestas para a Vida project, which is financed by a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and is being implemented by the World Bank, was designed to address threats to biodiversity and...
This paper points out that Payment for Environmental Services (PSA) was conceived as a new management tool, additional to the existing command and control, in order to facilitate the restoration and special...
As the use of payments for environmental services (PES) programs for conservation has grown in developing countries, the use of stated preference methods, particularly contingent valuation (CV) surveys...
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are one of the instruments that countries might use to try to reduce deforestation, and hence receive payments for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest...
The purpose of this report is to present the results achieved on the implementation of program activities Payments for Environmental Services (PSA) of Costa Rica in the Integral Development of Indian Associations...
Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales, PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports...
This paper discusses the social impacts of Costa Rica's Payments for Environmental Services (PSA) program and their effect on rural poverty. Although the analysis is hampered by significant information...
It has often been assumed that payments for watershed services (PWS) would go mostly to poor land users, thus contributing to poverty reduction, but there has been little empirical verification to date...
This paper uses data from Guatemala to map areas that are important for the provision of indirect ecosystem services, services whose benefits are enjoyed at some distance from the ecosystem that provides...