Payments for environmental services and Development. Combining conservation incentives with investment

Paiements pour services environnementaux et développement. Coupler incitation à la conservation et investissement

Alain Karsenty ()
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Alain Karsenty: UPR BSEF - Biens et services des écosystèmes forestiers tropicaux : l'enjeu du changement global - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

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Abstract: Paying communities or producers to maintain the quality of water or biodiversity; encouraging farmers to adopt environmentally friendly practices; paying developing countries to avoid deforestation and thereby reduce CO2 emissions: interest in payments for environmental services (PES) is growing throughout the world. However, past experience shows that PES are not without their problems: the criterion used to determine the amount; the methods used to evaluate effectiveness; and the uncertain use of payments, etc. Hence the proposal to combine direct incentives to protect ecosystems, especially forests, with the ecological intensification of agriculture and investment in land.

Keywords: EVALUATION; PAIEMENT; SERVICES ENVIRONNEMENTAUX; PAYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-01
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Published in Perspective, 2011, N° 7, 4 p. ⟨10.18167/agritrop/00014⟩

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DOI: 10.18167/agritrop/00014

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