Payments for environmental services in South Africa
This presentation discusses the status of PES activity in RSA (Republic of South Africa), the opportunities for further implementation, and current gaps for PES. A map […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Inbar; N. King
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payment for Forests Watershed Environmental Services in Mexico
The objectives of Mexico’s PSAH program is to stop the deforestation that threatens those forests critical for watershed-related environmental services in Mexico. This program pays land […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): J. Brana Varela; C. Munoz Pina
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Participatory landscape lifescape appraisal
In chapter 6, Earl and Kodio describe how the SANREM team introduced themselves to members of the Madiama community through the Participatory Landscape/Lifescape Appraisal (PLLA), an […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): J. Earl; A. Kodio
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Market for Ecosystem Services
Ecosystems and biodiversity provide a wide range of services critical for sustaining, strengthening and enriching human well-being. Understanding how valuable these services are is critical as […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): P. Kumar
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Getting started before you begin: Experiences from environmental service benefit transfer schemes in Indonesia
Abstract: ‘Payment for environmental services’ (PES), or what we refer to in this paper as ‘rewards for environmental services’, is recognised as an innovative scheme to […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): L. Beria; J. Prihatno
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Research planning of the Vietnam TMPEGS team for technology research
Objectives: Develop economically viable and ecologically-sound integrated vegetable-agroforestry (VAF) systems to increase farm productivity and income, and reduce vulnerability and risks.
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): L.V. Du; P.H.D.Phuoc; T.V. My
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The Green Buck: Using economic tools to deliver conservation goals: A WWF field guide
This guide demonstrates some of the ways in which WWF has developed economic approaches to the achievement of conservation success around the world, and some of […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): T. Le Quesne; R. McNally
- Type of Document: Research Report
Highlights from the FAO ESA workshop on environmental services for poverty reduction and food security
Contents: Working definition of PES objectives of PES programs: poverty vs. environment Household incentives to supply Demand: the great unknown Targeting Property Rights Political Economy
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): L. Lipper
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Environmental and socio-economic impacts: Research framework and planning
Objectives: Assess the short and long-term environmental and socio-economic impacts of integrated vegetable-agroforestry systems. This presentation Outlines the SWAT model, and the socio-economic and environmental impacts.
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): N.V. Loi; D.T. Ha; T.V. My
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payment for environmental services at the local level: Comparing two cases in Ecuador
Introduction: In Ecuador, a series of experiences of payment for environmental services (PES) have been developed. Contrasting from what happens in Costa Rica, where a central […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Alban; S. Wunder
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management