Designing Payments for Environmental Services in Theory and Practice: An Overview of the Issues

Payments for environmental services (PES) have attracted increasing interest as a mechanism to translate external, non-market values of the environment into real financial incentives for local actors to provide environmental services (ES). In this introductory paper, we set the stage for the rest of...

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Main Authors: Engel, Stefanie, Pagiola, Stefano, Wunder, Sven
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5694