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Are government incentives effective for avoided deforestation in the tropical Andean forest?
(Asim Zia, University of Vermont, (Estados Unidos), 2018)
In order to ensure the provision of goods and services from forests, many governments have promoted less-traditional conservation initiatives such as programs of payments for ecosystem services called, more broadly, direct ...
Evaluating Interactions of Forest Conservation Policies on Avoided Deforestation
(2015)
We estimate the effects on deforestation that have resulted from policy interactions between parks and payments and between park buffers and payments in Costa Rica between 2000 and 2005. We show that the characteristics ...
Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate
(Springer, Berlín (Alemania), 2015)
When designing schemes such as conditional cash transfers or payments for ecosystem services, the choice of whom to select and whom to exclude is critical.We incentivize and measure actual contributions to an environmental ...
Protected area types, strategies and impacts in Brazil’s Amazon: public protected area strategies do not yield a consistent ranking of protected area types by impact
(The Royal Society, Londres (Reino Unido), 2015)
The leading policy to conserve forest is protected areas (PAs). Yet, PAs are not a single tool: land users and uses vary by PA type; and public PA strategies vary in the extent of each type and in the determinants of impact ...