Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Context of Adaptation to Climate Change

The concept of payments for ecosystem services (PES) has recently emerged as a promising tool for enhancing or safeguarding the provision of ecosystem services (ES). Although the concept has been extensively scrutinized in terms of its potential positive and negative impacts on the poor in developin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isabel van de Sand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2012-03-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss1/art11/