Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Asymmetric information and contract design for payments for environmental services

In contractual relationships involving payments for environmental services, conservation buyers know less than landowners know about the costs of contractual compliance. Such asymmetric information reduces the […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): P.J. Ferraro
  • Type of Document: Media

Investigation into the movements of cattle, sheep and goat herds through the commune of Madiama

In chapter 4, Ballo and Ouattara describe the systems of animal husbandry within and around Madiama, thereby broadening the perspective of the landscape/lifescape scale. The chapter […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): A. Ballo; A. Ouattara
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Payments for Environmental Services in the Danube

This presentation discussed issues related to developing and promoting payments for environmental services in the Danube River Basin.

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): A. Beckmann
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Fostering Payments for Environmental Services (PES) in the Danube Basin: The goal: To conserve rural environments and improve rural livelihoods

This publication provides an overview of a proposed PES project in Europe’s Danube basin, describing the location, objectives and anticipated outcomes. The project emphasis is to […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): A. Beckmann; P. Gutman; T. Long
  • Type of Document: Project Document

Fostering Payments for Environmental Services (PES) in the Danube Basin: Why the Danube Basin and why payments for environmental services?

This publication describes the characteristics of the Danube basin and reviews the history of land use and ecological health in different parts of the basin. Several […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): A. Beckmann; P. Gutman; T. Long
  • Type of Document: Project Document

Institutional constraints and opportunities in developing environmental service markets: Lessons from institutional studies on RUPES in Indonesia

Summary: This report examines institutional constraints and opportunities in developing environmental service markets. It primarily draws from institutional studies on RUPES programs (Rewarding Upland Poor for […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): B. Arifin
  • Type of Document: Research Report

PES in the Tisza River Basin

This presentation describes WWF’s work through the ‘One Europe More Nature’ initiative to develop socio-economic mechanisms for nature conservation and sustainable development in a number of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): C. Avis
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Economic linkages among occupational groups in the commune of Madiama

In chapter 13, Brewster et al. model the economic linkages between different groups of natural resource users and analyze the effect of the potential growth strategies. […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): C. Brewster; D. Kabore; M. Bertelsen; P. Wyeth
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Payment for water-based environmental services: Ecuador’s experiences, lessons learned and ways forward

The IUCN Water and Nature Initiative supported the development of a study in Ecuador, which aimed to identify national experiences in the creation and implementation of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): C. Espinosa
  • Type of Document: Research Report