Journal
CONSERVATION LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 274-279Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00309.x
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Market-based policy tools; payments for ecosystem services; enviromental governace; integrated conservation and development projects; ecosystem services
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- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G008485/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/G008485/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In this commentary we critically discuss the suitability of payments for ecosystem services and the most important challenges they face. While such instruments can play a role in improving environmental governance, we argue that over-reliance on payments as win-win solutions might lead to ineffective outcomes, similar to earlier experience with integrated conservation and development projects. Our objective is to raise awareness, particularly among policy makers and practitioners, about the limitations of such instruments and to encourage a dialogue about the policy contexts in which they might be appropriate.
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