Spatial targeting of payments for environmental services: A tool for boosting conservation benefits

By T. Wünscher, S. Engel, Sven Wunder. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Management Science and Operations Research

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For services rendered? Modeling hydrology and livelihoods in Andean payments for environmental services schemes (2009, unknown): “When PES resources are scarce, spatial prioritization becomes essential (Wünscher et al., 2008).”
Improving the link between payments and the provision of ecosystem services in agri-environment schemes (2014, unknown): “…land management units when some ecosystem services may operate at a greater scale that requires linkages between separate land management units (Moxey et al., 1999; Marggraf, 2003; Groth, 2005; Goldman et al., 2007; Engel et al., 2008; Wunscher et al., 2008; Klimek et al., 2008; ECA, 2011).”
Market instruments, ecosystem services, and property rights: Assumptions and conditions for sustained social and ecological benefits (2013, background): “temporal and spatial scales (Drechsler and Hartig, 2011; Stone and Wu, 2010; Wünscher et al., 2008).”
A Revised Conceptual Framework for Payments for Environmental Services (2009, methodology): “There are techniques to target payments in the absence of such information (Ferrraro 2008, Wunscher et al. 2008, Barton et al. 2009), but this is costly and often requires large amounts of data.”
Only One Tree from Each Seed? Environmental Effectiveness and Poverty Alleviation in Mexico's Payments for Ecosystem Services Program (2015, background): “Wünscher, Engel, and Wunder (2008) simulation shows that the avoided deforestation benefits of PES in Costa Rica could be increased by targeting based on landowners' participation costs, with higher payments to attract those with larger costs.”
Payments for ecosystem services: A review and comparison of developing and industrialized countries (2013, background): “Wuenscher et al. (2008) developed a site selection tool for spatial targeting, which takes account of ES provided, degradation risk and participation costs.”
Economic Factors Affecting Diversified Farming Systems (2013, background): “In most cases, heterogeneity in the marginal cost of provision of benefits makes PES a more economicallyefficient and lower-cost mechanism for providing environmental services than less flexible policy alternatives, such as command-and-control regulation (Engel et al. 2008, Wünscher et al. 2008).”
Adapting auctions for the provision of ecosystem services at the landscape scale (2011, background): “A number of metrics have been developed for conservation auctions, such as habitat hectares and the biodiversity benefits index (e.g. Chomitz et al., 2006; Oliver et al., 2005; Parkes et al., 2003; Wünscher et al., 2008).”
Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues (2008, background): “…use fixed payments per hectare for given activities; alternatively, payments may be differentiated in space and/or across agents on the basis of ES provided (benefit targeting), costs of ES provision (cost targeting) or a mixture of both (see Section 5 and Wünscher et al., 2008-this issue).”
Meta-analysis of institutional-economic factors explaining the environmental performance of payments for watershed services (2011, background): “…to translate the often ∗Correspondence: Dr Roy Brouwer Tel: +31 20 598 5608 Fax: +31 20 598 9553 e-mail: roy.brouwer@ivm.vu.nl non-market value of environmental goods and services into financial incentives to preserve the ecosystems that provide these services (Salzman 2005; Wunscher et al. 2008).”