This Campbell systematic review examines the effects of payment for environmental services (PES) programmes on deforestation and poverty, and whether environmental and …
Since the 1980's, decentralized forest management has been promoted as a way to enhance sustainable forest use and reduce rural poverty. Rural communities manage …
Many of the services supplied by nature are externalities. Economic theory suggests that some form of subsidy or contracting between the beneficiaries and the providers could result …
Money for Nothing? A Call for Empirical Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation Investments | PLOS Biology Skip to main content Advertisement PLOS Biology Browse Current Issue Journal …
We review and confirm the claim that credible evaluations of common conservation instruments continue to be rare. The limited set of rigorous studies suggests that protected …
A Agrawal, A Chhatre - World development, 2006 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, scholarship on resource use and management has emphasized the key role of institutions, communities, and socio-economic factors. Although much of this …
Community forestry in Nepal vests rights of access, use, exclusion, and management of national forestland to local user groups. There is strong potential for community forests to …
P Cooke, G Köhlin, WF Hyde - Environment and Development …, 2008 - cambridge.org
This paper reviews the state of economic understanding about fuelwood in developing countries. It synthesizes the main results from numerous empirical studies with the intent of …
We investigate determinants of household firewood collection in rural Nepal, using 1995–96 and 2002–3 World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data. We …