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Can payments for environmental services reduce deforestation and forest degradation

Year: 2009

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Payments for environmental services (PES) have the potential to become effective, cost-efficient and equitable instruments for implementing REDD+ on the ground. PES require certain preconditions to be satisfied, in particular land stewardship with ‘the right to exclude third parties’, which is not granted in many forest frontiers. Using spatial targeting toward high-threat, high-service and low-cost areas can dramatically improve PES carbon results. Failing to use these design features can make PES inefficient.

Source: CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)

Author: Sven Wunder

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Life on land, Climate action

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W197057616

FWCI: 5.736

Cites: 270

Cited by: 39

Related to: 10