Payments for ecosystem services and poverty reduction: concepts, issues, and empirical perspectives

Environment and Development Economics - Tập 13 Số 3 - Trang 245-254 - 2008
Erwin Bulte1, Leslie Lipper2, Randy Stringer3, David Zilberman4
1Development Economics Group, Wageningen University, and Department of Economics, Tilburg University, Box 8130, 6700 EW Wageningen, Netherlands. Email: [email protected]
2Agricultural and Development Economics Division, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy. Email: [email protected]
3School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. Email: [email protected]
4Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley, USA, and the Giannini Foundation. Email: [email protected]

Tóm tắt

Paying for the provision of environmental services is a recent policy innovation attracting much attention in both developed and developing countries. This innovation, referred to as ‘payments for ecosystem services’ (when the emphasis is on enhancing ‘nature’ services) or ‘payments for environmental services’ (when amenities provided by the built environment are also included) is referred to here as PES. PES programs aim to harness market forces to obtain more efficient environmental outcomes. Since so many opportunities for PES programs could involve farmers in poor regions, international aid agencies and private donors, looking for a double dividend, increasingly consider using PES programs as a potential way of meeting both social and environmental objectives.

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Environment and Development Economics

Tập 13 Số 3

245-254

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