Contents -- Introduction - Climate Change and Human Mobility After Paris -- Introduction -- Science -- Policy -- Chapters in This Volume -- Remittances -- Livelihoods -- Land -- Looking Forward -- References -- Part I: Mountain Areas -- Chapter 1: An Index Based Assessment of Vulnerability to...

Payments for environmental services (PES) have become an increasingly popular market-based instrument to translate external, non-market environmental services into financial incentives for landowners to preserve the ecosystems that provide the services. However, lack of spatial differentiation...

This paper presents a first empirical assessment of carnivore conservation under a performance payment scheme. In Sweden, reindeer herder villages are paid based on the number of lynx (lynx lynx) and wolverine (gulo gulo) offspring certified on their pastures. The villages decide on the internal...