Payment for environmental services in agricultural landscapes : economic policies and poverty reduction in developing countries /
In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental a...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from Springer Complete |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Rome, Italy : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ; [New York] : Springer, ©2009. |
| Series: | Natural resource management and policy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and overview
- Putting payments for environmental services in the context of economic development
- Designing payments for environmental services with weak property rights and external interests
- Marketing environmental services
- Economics of carbon sequestration projects involving smallholders
- Conservation payments to reduce wildlife habitat fragmentation and disease risks
- Payments for ecosystem services, poverty and sustainability: The case of agricultural soil carbon sequestration
- Lessons learned from Mexico's payment for environmental services program
- Agricultural landscape externalities, agro-tourism, and rural poverty reduction in morocco
- Exploring environmental services incentive policies for the Philippine rice sector: The case of intra-species agrobiodiversity conservation
- Assessing the feasibility of wetlands conservation: Using payments for ecosystem services in Pallisa, Uganda
- Managing wildlife damage to agriculture in Bhutan: Conflicts, costs and compromise
- Conclusion.