Mainstreaming and implementing the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment results by integrating them into sustainable development strategy / Mohan Munasinghe --Development, ecosystems, and governance : what are the priorities for policy makers? / Antonio La Vina -- To change global change : ecosystem...

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...

This paper presents a thorough reflection on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, which may be viewed as the most innovative tools of the ‘environmental policy toolkit'. These are incentive-based mechanisms, compensating landowners to manage the natural resources under their control...