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Compensation for ecosystem services: Directions, potentials and pitfalls for local communities

Compensation for ecosystem services: Directions, potentials and pitfalls for local communities
As well as presenting a summarized characterization of PES-CES schemes, this work underscores the potentially dangerous direction that these schemes are currently taking worldwide, and offers elements for an alternative approach for ensuring the development of CES schemes that simultaneously benefit poor rural communities while enhancing the ecosystem services provided by rural landscapes
URL:
http://www.prisma.org.sv/uploads/media/CES.pdf
Authors:
Kandel, S. and Cuéllar, N.
Published:
2011
Publisher:
Salvadoran Research Program on Development and Enviroment (PRISMA)
Tags: social impact redd knowledge benefit sharing feature institutional design payment for environmental services local communities

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