Do payments pay off? Evidence from participation in Costa Rica's PES program

RA Arriagada, EO Sills, PJ Ferraro, SK Pattanayak - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Payments for environmental services (PES) are often viewed as a way to simultaneously
improve conservation outcomes and the wellbeing of rural households who receive the …

Building the evidence base for REDD+: Study design and methods for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on local well-being

EO Sills, C de Sassi, P Jagger, K Lawlor… - Global environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Climate change mitigation in developing countries is increasingly expected to generate co-
benefits that help meet sustainable development goals. This has been an expectation and a …

Governance of Payments for Ecosystem Ecosystem services influences social and environmental outcomes in Costa Rica

K Brownson, EP Anderson, S Ferreira, S Wenger… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs are used to achieve both
ecosystem services and human well-being objectives. PES employs various governance …

An investigation of the targeting and allocation of post-flood disaster aid for rehabilitation in Punjab, Pakistan

MI Ahmad, H Ma - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020 - Elsevier
Pakistan is listed among the countries that are extremely susceptible to climate changes and
it has experienced several natural disaster shocks with tremendous impacts. However, post …

[图书][B] A guide to learning about livelihood impacts of REDD+ projects

P Jagger, EO Sills, KE Lawlor, WD Sunderlin - 2010 - documents1.worldbank.org
We leave to other guides the important issue of evaluating impacts on biodiversity and local
ecosystem services, perhaps as integrated components of carbon monitoring, reporting and …

Exploring the connections between participation in and benefits from payments for hydrological services programs in Veracruz State, Mexico

KW Jones, SA Foucat, EC Pischke, J Salcone… - Ecosystem …, 2019 - Elsevier
Payments for hydrological services (PHS) programs are expected to confer tangible benefits
to households. Impact evaluations of PHS programs, however, find few to no changes in …

Causal inference in environmental conservation: The role of institutions

EO Sills, K Jones - Handbook of environmental economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The on-going degradation of global public goods such as biodiversity and climate regulation
due to the loss of natural tropical ecosystems has generated demand for evidence on the …

The influence of cash and technical assistance on household-level outcomes in payments for hydrological services programs in Chiapas, Mexico

KW Jones, CLM Brenes, XA Shinbrot, W López-Báez… - Ecosystem Services, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper examines whether and how payments for hydrological services (PHS) programs
implemented on communal lands in Mexico result in household-level conservation and …

Can recall data be trusted? Evaluating reliability of interview data on traditional multilingualism in highland Daghestan

M Daniel, A Koshevoy, I Schurov… - Field …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we address the issue of reliability of quantitative data on multilingualism of the
past obtained as recall data. More specifically, we investigate whether the interviewees' …

Targeting disaster aid in post‐tsunami Sri Lanka

A Gunawardena, JM Baland - Development Policy Review, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this article we examine the allocation of boats and houses, the two major types of aid
made available to tsunami‐affected fishery households in Sri Lanka. We investigate the …