Payments for Environmental Services
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Date
2007
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University of Sussex, Brighton, UK: Institute for Development Studies (IDS)
Abstract
The concept of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) seeks to create positive economic incentives to change human behaviour in ways that increase or maintain environmental services such as watershed protection, the sequestration of carbon and the provision of habitat for endangered species.
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Keywords
Environmental services, Payments for environmental services, Sustainable development, PES, Economic incentives, Ecosystem services