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Assessing the role of economic instruments in a policy mix for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision: a review of some methodological challenges

Barton, D.N.; Rusch, G.; May, P.; Ring, I.; Unnerstall, H. - 2009

In this paper we review a number of methodological challenges of evaluating and designing economic instruments aimed at biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision in the context of an existing policy mix. In the context of the EU 2010 goal of halting biodiversity loss,...

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Assessing the role of economic instruments in a policy mix for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision: a review of some methodological challenges

Barton, D.N.; Rusch, G.; May, P.; Ring, I.; Unnerstall, H. - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015217092

Payments for Environmental Services in Costa Rica

Pagiola, Stefano - 2006

Costa Rica pioneered the use of the payments for environmental services (PES) approach in developing countries by establishing a formal, country-wide program of payments, the PSA program. The PSA program has worked hard to develop mechanisms to charge the users of environmental services for the...

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Biodiversitatea patrimoniului natural montan. Provocările prezentului și perspective durabile de acțiune

Antonescu, Daniela - 2018

Între zonele montane și biodiversitate există o legătură directă și indisolubilă: zonele montane reprezintă, poate, cel mai important izvor de eco-sisteme la nivel global, adevărate laboratoare științifice, de cercetare și cunoaștere a evoluției și distribuției speciilor și...

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An Anatomy of State Failures in The Forest Management in Pakistan

Hasan, Lubna - 2008

Deforestation remains one of the most intractable environmental problems of today. Pakistan also faces serious problem … conception of the issue since most of the forests in Pakistan are state owned/managed, and responsibility for the protection …/conservation of these forests rests with the state, therefore, any inquiry into the causes of forest degradation in Pakistan must …

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Forest and Ecology Grants: Way Ahead for the 16th Finance Commission

Bhatkhande, Aniket; Pethe, Abhay - 2024

Climate change is dominating risk analysis across governments and businesses and biodiversity conservation is critical mitigation against it. India through the Forest and Ecology grant has the world’s largest Ecological Fiscal Transfer. As the 16th Finance Commission deliberates it can...

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Estimating the costs of REDD at the country level

Pagiola, Stefano; Bosquet, Benoit - 2009

Individual countries considering participating in a Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism need information on what it would cost them to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and how to actually deliver those emissions reductions....

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Towards a Sustainable Joint Forest Management Programme: Evidence from Western Midnapore Division in West Bengal

Sarker, Debnarayan; Das, Nimai - 2004

This article demonstrates that the resistance movement of forest communities in western Midnapore division in West Bengal, which acted as a key precursor to the joint forest management (JFM) programmes in India through a June 1990 Ministry of Environment and Forests circular, was based to a...

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Efficiency of Market Behaviour of NTFPs for Households under JFMP: A Case Study in West Bengal

Sarker, Debnarayan; Das, Nimai - 2006

This paper attempts to examine the extent of marketing efficiency and economic efficiency of NTFPs in different markets based on the empirical study on some households under JFMP and on some market middlemen related to the business of NTFPs under Bankura district in the state of West Bengal....

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Social Capital and Joint Forest Management Programme: A Comparative Study on Female-headed and Joint Forest Protection Committees in West Bengal

Sarker, Debnarayan; Das, Nimai - 2004

Under a framework for the measurement of social capital at the local decentralized institutions related to three sample female forest protection committees (FPCs) and three joint FPCs, where most of the members live below poverty line and are dependent on food-livelihood security from forest...

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