Climate, community & biodiversity
This presentation describes the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA), reviews multiple-benefit projects in Madagascar, and assesses the current carbon market opportunities & limitations with respect […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): B. Vitale
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Market for ecosystem services in Australia: Practical design and case studies
Abstract: The use of market-based approaches to provide and protect ecosystem services in has gained significant attention in Australia. Unfortunately the novelty of market-based approaches has […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): S. Whitten; D. Shelton
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments for Environmental Services: Some nuts and bolts
This publication discusses the conservation paradigm of Payments for Environmental Services (PES). CIFOR provides a definition of PES with five fundamental principles; PES is a (1) […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): S. Wunder
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Beyond “markets”: Why terminology matters
What is in a name? Does a rose by any other name truly smell as sweet? Aware that terms such as markets and payments for ecosystem […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): S. Wunder; M.T. Vargas
- Type of Document: Newspaper Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payment is good, control is better: why payments for forest environmental services in Vietnam have so far remained incipient
Summary: The study discusses the types of PES and PES-like initiatives that have been implemented in Vietnam. The authors summarize both the achievements and challenges for […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): S. Wunder; B.D. The; E. Ibarra
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Modeling spatial diversity: A forest-site selection tool for the Costa Rican program of Payments for Environmental Services (PES)
This presentation describes research to address problems with the current setup of Costa Rica’s PES program. The budget is too small to cover all the priority […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): T. Wunscher
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Land use changes in Madiama Commune
In chapter 5, Wynne et al. combine remote sensing and ground truthing in the analysis of land use change during a fifty-year period (1952-2002) in the […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): R. Wynne; M. Sidi; M. Toure; N. Sengupta; A. Ballo
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The WWF Cork Oak Landscapes Programme: PES as a tool to enhance conservation?
This presentation discusses WWF’s Cork Oak programme, highlighting possible opportunities for developing payments for environmental services. It provides an Overview of Cork Oak landscapes, describes the […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): X. Escute
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Europe and Eurasia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Impacts of irrigation development on agricultural productivity, resource allocation and income distribution: A longitudinal analysis from Palawan, the Philippines
Abstract: This study evaluates the impacts of irrigation development on farming communities in Palawan. This study focus on three major issues: (1) production efficiency in the […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): R. Yao
- Type of Document: Thesis or Dissertation
How successful are government interventions in food markets? Insights from the Philippine rice market
The study investigates the Philippine government s price stabilization policy for rice. Seemingly Unrelated Regressions are used to examine the effectiveness of the program at regional […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): R.T. Yao; G.E. Shively; W.A. Masters
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document