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Could Payments for Ecosystem Services Create an "Ecosystem Service Curse"? [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have received much praise and are increasingly perceived as a promising tool to ensure the protection of global ecosystems as well as being able to help alleviate poverty in areas rich in ecosystem services. Given current trends, the scale of payments is likely to grow, creating new circumstances within which ...
Jakub Kronenberg, Klaus Hubacek
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Collective payments for ecosystem services

open access: yes, 2023
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Kaiser, Josef   +2 more
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Libres propos conclusifs sur la dette écologique

open access: yesVertigO, 2016
The ecological debt helps improving the understanding of our relationship with nature. The concept considers the past in order to think the present and imagine the future.
Alexandra Langlais
doaj   +1 more source

Self-selection into payments for ecosystem services programs [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018
Designers and funders of payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs have long worried that payments flow to landholders who would have conserved forests even without the program, undermining the environmental benefits (“additionality”) and cost-effectiveness of PES.
Jack, B Kelsey, Jayachandran, Seema
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Feasibility for Piloting Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) Initiative at Ramaroshan Lake Complex, Achham

open access: yesZeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej
Ramaroshan Lake Complex is an area comprised of 12 lakes and 18 meadows interconnected with each other, forming the complex, which provides multiple ecosystem services at local, national, and international levels.
KC Milan, Ankit Poudel, Bhawana Basyal
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The Ethics of Payment for Ecosystem Services

open access: yesResearch Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences, 2013
The Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) is an economic tool that has emerged in recent years as a mechanism to promote conservation of natural resources, as well as that of various goods and services commonly used. However, its application in practice raises a number of ethical concerns that this study seeks to discuss. The concept and benefits of PES
Jose Alfredo Villagomez-Cortes   +1 more
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Financement complémentaire et paiements pour les services environnementaux de la future réserve marine régionale du Prêcheur (Martinique)

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2017
The article presents the different options of complementary financing and their feasibility in the context of the implementation of the future marine protected area of Le Prêcheur in Martinique.
Adeline Borot de Battisti   +4 more
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Integrated assessments of payments for ecosystem services programs [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
Ecosystems provide crucial services such as clean water to humans. Numerous payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs have been implemented around the world. However, their socioeconomic and environmental consequences are rarely quantified simultaneously. In PNAS, Zheng et al.
Jianguo, Liu, Wu, Yang
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Estimating the opportunity costs of environmental conservation in the Feijão River watershed (São Carlos-SP, Brazil)

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Biology
The objective of this study was to infer the opportunity cost of land use of the Feijão River watershed (São Carlos-SP, Brazil), in order to estimate the financial resources necessary to compensate landowners willing to convert their production areas ...
F. H. Machado   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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