Are direct payments for environmental services spelling doom for sustainable forest management in the tropics?

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dc.contributor.authorWunder, Svenen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:19:25Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:19:25Zen
dc.date.issued2006en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractOver the past several decades, significant donor funding has been directed to sustainable forest management in the tropics, in the hope of combining forest conservation with economic gains through sustainable use. To date, this approach has produced only modest results in terms of changed silvicultural and land-use practices in this area. Direct payments for environmental services (PES) have been suggested as a promising alternative but still remain widely untested in the tropics. This paper first provides a conceptual assessment of PES, comparing the main features of this practice with those of other conservation instruments. Second, the paper discusses a series of critical questions that have been raised about both the environmental and livelihood impacts of PES. It is concluded that some ex ante judgments about the effects of PES may have been overly critical, and that, based on preliminary assessments, there is good reason to continue experimental PES implementation for purposes of consolidating our knowledge.en
dc.description.notesPES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier2367en
dc.identifier.citationEcology and Society 11(2): 23en
dc.identifier.issn1708-3087en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66857en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss2/art23/en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2006 by the authoren
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectForest managementen
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectPovertyen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectConservation incentivesen
dc.subjectRural livelihoodsen
dc.subjectEconomic incentivesen
dc.subjectSustainable forest management (SFM)en
dc.titleAre direct payments for environmental services spelling doom for sustainable forest management in the tropics?en
dc.typeAbstracten
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