Wie kann eine Green Economy in Deutschland gestaltet werden? Wie kann die sozialökologische Transformation trotz aller Pfadabhängigkeiten und Hindernisse gelingen? Und welche Faktoren sind hierfür auf den unterschiedlichen Ebenen und Feldern wie Mobilität, Ressourcenschonung oder...

Competitive bidding is considered to be a cost-effective allocation mechanism for payments for ecosystem services. This article shows that competition is not a necessary condition for sustaining cost-effectiveness in the long run. In a repeated conservation auction, learning, specific...

Practitioners in the fields of sustainable development, land management, and biodiversity conservation are increasingly interested in using economic instruments that promise "win-win" solutions for conservation and human livelihoods. However, practitioners often lack guidance for selecting and...

The payment for ecosystem services (PES) emerges as part of an arsenal of tools for innovative domestic financing for otherwise absent markets relating to natural resource management. Its traditional framework aspects of conditionality, voluntary transaction, at least one buyer and seller, and...