Through a systematic review of peer-reviewed and grey literature, this paper analyzes
evidence of the livelihood impacts of Payments for Environmental Services (PES). Forty-six …

We contribute to the growing body of literature on the ecological and socio-psychological
impacts of providing payments as rewards for conservation. We conducted a systematic …

Degradation, fragmentation, and loss of tropical forests has exponentially increased in the
last decades leading to unprecedented rates of species extinctions and loss of ecosystems …

Protected areas (PAs) are social-ecological systems (SES) and are contested spaces. The
challenges in governing PAs call for a governance system that works with human-nature …

Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is the main economic instrument developed for
natural resource conservation. Evidence has shown the importance of local context in PES …

Costa Rica was a pioneer in implementing the concept of ecosystem services through a
dedicated policy instrument: the Payment for Environmental Services programme (PESP) …

Payments for ecosystem services programs (PESPs) are increasingly being adopted
globally to enhance sustainability outcomes. There are also hundreds of studies yearly on …

Methods This article emerged as a result of a workshop held at the V International Congress
of Ecosystem Services in the Neotropics (CISEN V). The proposal for the workshop entailed …

In this article, we propose that ecosystem services (ES) should be studied integrating social
participation and the narrative of social actors. We analyzed the ES literature (1996–2020) in …

There has been significant study of barriers to implementation of payment for ecosystem
services in Indigenous communities in less developed countries. These barriers include …