Drawing on a pooled cross-sectional dataset of 5,225 households in the Province of Sichuan, this paper analyzes the income and distributional effects among poor households in rural China participating in a forest carbon sink (FCS) program. To be able to make causal inferences, we employ an...

We implemented a decision experiment in the field with rural peasants in Colombia to test the effects of introducing then partially or totally removing Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). We consider individual and collective payments and different rules for removal. We find that there is...

In the early decades of modern environmental law, local governments retained their prerogative over community design and other essentially local matters, but were largely excluded from the debate on national environmental policy. More recently, environmental lawyers have reignited the question...

Land managers’ preferences towards practice- and outcome-based payments for ecosystem services are analysed using a labelled choice experiment applied to a Mediterranean oak savannah (dehesa or montado) as a case study. Results indicate that land managers prefer outcome- to practice-based...

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) represent a growing share of conservation efforts. To make the most of limited budgets, these programs must target participants and regions most likely to produce the greatest environmental gains while improving (or at least not reducing) economic wellbeing;...