Payments for environmental services: Past performance and pending potentials

S Wunder, J Börner, D Ezzine-de-Blas… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We develop a theory of change for payments for environmental services (PES) to review
their imminent strengths and weaknesses in light of a growing body of impact evaluation …

Forest cover effects of payments for ecosystem services: Evidence from an impact evaluation in Brazil

ACO Fiorini, C Mullally, M Swisher, FE Putz - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We evaluate the effects of “Water and Forest Producers”(PAF), a payment for ecosystem
services project, on forest cover outcomes in a watershed serving the Rio de Janeiro region …

Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives

WD Sunderlin, SS Atmadja, C Chervier… - Global Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The institutional predecessor of REDD+ is the integrated conservation and development
project (ICDP) that combines restrictions on forest access and conversion (negative …

Economic impacts of payments for environmental services on livelihoods of agro-extractivist communities in the Brazilian Amazon

HN Alves-Pinto, JE Hawes, P Newton… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rural communities in the Brazilian Amazon rely on manioc, produced in a swidden-fallow
system that uses land cleared from forest areas. Increased agricultural production could …

Protected areas interventions and SDGs: the case of Bolsa Floresta Programme in the Brazilian Amazon

AE Laques, AIR Cabral, RGP da Silva… - … Development Goals for …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Brazilian Amazon forest area has many isolated communities practising small-
scale agriculture in a primary forest matrix. Grant programmes, such as the Bolsa Floresta …