Payments for biodiversity conservation
Excerpt: PES schemes provide direct and conditional incentives to land users to adopt biodiversity-friendly practices. The push for such payment schemes comes not only from increased […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): R. Jindal; J. Kerr
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments for bundled services
Excerpt: Any ecosystem provides several kinds of environmental services at the same time. As we know, a tropical forest sequesters carbon, provides watershed services, is aesthetically […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): R. Jindal; J. Kerr
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments for carbon sequestration services
Excerpt from Introduction: “Carbon sequestration – the process of removing excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and storing it on land – helps mitigate global […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): R. Jindal; J. Kerr
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments for scenic beauty
Although payments for scenic beauty are older than payment schemes for most other environmental services, scenic beauty itself is hard to define. It often encompasses a […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): R. Jindal; J. Kerr
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Securing environmental services and alleviating poverty
Introduction: PES programs can have a significant impact on the poor. This is because potential service providers often constitute poor land users who depend directly on […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): R. Jindal; J. Kerr
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Transaction costs
Introduction: Transaction costs are the costs of negotiating, contracting, implementing, and monitoring a PES program. They include all costs borne by a PES program other than […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): R. Jindal; J. Kerr
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Valuing environmental services
Excerpt: Payments for environmental services usually signal the value that service users attach to them or the opportunity cost for land users to provide the same. […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): R. Jindal; J. Kerr
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
El Analisis Institucional del Desarrollo Forestal Comunitario: Hacia una Redefinicion de los Desafios
Presentation given at a training session event on Institutional Analysis of Forest Policy for policy makers and practitioners working on community forestry in Bolivia. The purpose […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): K. Andersson
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Policy
Biodiversity for late blight management across a climatic gradient
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): K.A. Garrett
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Plant disease in the context of ecosystem services
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): K.A. Garrett
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
