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...

It is nowadays unquestionable that the defense of the environmental quality and to it safeguards of the natural resources are fundamental slopes of the social development. The exploration of the common natural resources (water, air, soil, natural landscapes and humanized) it has been provoking...

This paper explores how to enhance the role for academic research (natural sciences, economics and their integration; and stakeholder management) within the development and implementation of water quality policy in New Zealand. Our focus is on the use of market based instruments and particularly...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, in welchem Verhältnis Umweltaspekte zu Subventionen und Subventionspolitik stehen und inwiefern sie für subventionspolitische Reformen fruchtbar gemacht werden können. Dabei werden Bezüge zwischen den Politikfeldern Umweltpolitik und "Subventionspolitik"...

Global scientific assessments increasingly reach the conclusion that transformative change of global production and consumption systems is necessary to safeguard and maintain global commons, such as biodiversity, natural forests and the ocean, and to stabilise climate at the global scale....