Payments for Environmental Services: Some nuts and bolts

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2005

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Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR

Abstract

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) voluntary, (2) conditional transaction with at least (3) one seller, (4) one buyer, and (5) a well-defined environmental service. The brief describes current trends in location, scale, and type of PES projects; suggests conditions in which PES is an efficient, effective approach to conservation; and discusses potential positive and negative impacts on poverty.

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Payments for environmental services, Livelihoods, Tropical zones, Land tenure, Environmental services, Poverty, Conservation, Conservation incentives, Rural livelihoods, Economic incentives, Stewardship, Icdps, Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia, Ecosystem Field Scale Watershed

Citation

CIFOR Infobrief no. 9