PES and poverty alleviation

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dc.contributor.authorWunder, Svenen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:31:27Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:31:27Zen
dc.date.issued2007en
dc.description.abstractPES is a voluntary transaction where a well-defined environmental service is being bought from a provider who controls an environmental asset and the provision can be continually secured. Challenges to PES include insecure land tenure, lack of control over environmental resources, illegal resource uses, and weak governance. PES can enhance resource uses previously not in the best interests of landowners, can resolve conflicts, and make can all participants better off, including the poor. Because PES programs are voluntary, they are unlikely to make the poor worse off unless people are cheated or surprised by unanticipated effects. Because PES is a relatively new concept with small numbers of participants, there are few systematic studies to evaluate its effects on poverty. Donors may focus only on PES programs that help poor people significantly, but that makes them development projects in disguise, excluding the private sector's participation. The best way to achieve pro-poor PES may be to focus on interventions that "grease the wheels."en
dc.description.notesPES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/vnd.ms-powerpointen
dc.identifier3424en
dc.identifier.citationPresented at the USAID PES policy seminar: Pro-Poor Payments for Ecosystem Services, Virginia Tech Northern VA Center, Falls Church, Virginia, 4 October 2007en
dc.identifier.other3424_Wunder2007_PovertyAlleviation.ppten
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67532en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.oired.vt.edu/sanremcrsp/menu_research/PES.Policy.Seminar.phpen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.oired.vt.edu/sanremcrsp/documents/PES.Sourcebook.Oct.2007/PolicySeminarPPTs/WunderPovertyAlleviation.ppsen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSocial impactsen
dc.subjectIncome generationen
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectLand tenureen
dc.subjectEnvironmental servicesen
dc.subjectPovertyen
dc.subjectEconomic impactsen
dc.subjectPESen
dc.subjectPro-poor pesen
dc.subjectPerverse incentivesen
dc.subjectTransaction costsen
dc.subjectOpportunity costsen
dc.subjectImpact assessmenten
dc.subjectConditional transferen
dc.subjectAccessen
dc.subjectEs useren
dc.subjectEs selleren
dc.titlePES and poverty alleviationen
dc.typePresentationen
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