203 Citations
Ökonomie des Klimawandels - Integrierte ökonomische Bewertung der Instrumente zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel
- Economics
- 2014
Recommendations for the adjustment of existing policy instruments are derived and practical suggestions for the design of new instruments are identified, which explicitly consider social, economic and individual barriers, which frequently hamper the implementation of those measures.
Ecosystem Services and Institutional Dynamics
- Economics
- 2021
Although many countries have included biodiversity offsetting (BO) requirements in their environmental regulations over the past four decades, this mechanism has recently been the object of renewed…
Payments for watershed ecosystem services: mechanism, progress and challenges
- Economics
- 2018
ABSTRACT Introduction: Payment for watershed ecosystem services (PWES), a policy instrument for compensating for the externality of watershed ecosystem/environmental services, has gained in policy…
Advancing the Payments for Ecosystem Service Discourse through Institutional Theory
- Economics
- 2017
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) is a policy tool that uses monetary or in-kind compensation to internalize environmental externalities. While there is a large literature that outlines ideal…
Factors Influencing the Success of a Market Based Conservation Initiative to Promote Rural Land-use Compatibility
- Economics
- 2017
Encroachment of incompatible land uses increasingly threatens military training across the country. In many states, military training grounds are part of the rural landscape resulting in significant…
Les (dé)connexions du développement : ethno-géographie systémique de l'aide au développement et à la conservation forestière à Amindrabe, Madagascar
- Political Science
- 2017
Cette recherche part du constat d'un dysfonctionnement de l'aide au developpement et a la conservation. Depuis les annees 1980 et malgre la succession des strategies de l'aide, les resultats restent…
An Assessment of Intermediary Roles in Payments for Ecosystem Services Schemes in the Context of Catchment Management: An Example from South West England
- Economics
- 2017
Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) schemes are an underdeveloped component of the policy mix for catchment management in many countries. The importance of intermediaries to such schemes is…
Context and capacity: The potential for performance-based agricultural water quality policy
- Business
- 2014
Current Canadian policy approaches to agricultural water quality encourage the adoption of best management practices through voluntary, incentive-based measures. Despite these measures, concerns…
Using Natural Capital to Reduce Disaster Risk
- Economics
- 2010
Abstract Natural capital can be used to reduce disaster losses; for example, wetlands store floodwaters and mangroves buffer storm surge. This paper reviews the experience of several US communities…
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Contracting for Environmental Property Rights: The Case of Vittel
- Economics
- 2005
Based on a real case of contracting for environmental property rights, we explore several implications of Coase's insights. The case study adds empirical content to basic transaction costs concepts…
Case studies of markets and innovative financial mechanisms for water services from forests
- Environmental Science
- 2001
Contiene: Case 1. France: Perrier Vittel's payments for water quality. -- Case 2. Costa Rica: hydroelectric utilities' financing of upstream reforestation. -- Case 3. Cauca River, Colombia:…
Silver bullet or fools' gold? A global review of markets for forest environmental services and their impact on the poor.
- Economics
- 2002
Ever since the passage of the 1990 amendments to the US Clean Air act and the creation of a market in sulfur dioxide (SO2), it has become clear that market mechanisms can be effectively used to…
Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts
- Economics
- 2005
Payments for environmental services (PES) are part of a new and more direct conservation paradigm, explicitly recognizing the need to bridge the interests of landowners and outsiders. Eloquent…
Cooperation between a small private hydropower producer and a conservation NGO for forest protection: the case of La Esperanza, Costa Rica
- Environmental Science
- 2002
This Case Study focuses on a cooperation mechanism developed in Costa Rica between La Esperanza Hydropower Project (downstream water user) and the Monteverde Conservation League, a conservation NGO…
Aider les agriculteurs à modifier leurs pratiques-Eléments pour une ingénierie du changement
- 1999