All That Glitters: A Review of Payments for Watershed Services in Developing Countries

By I. Porras, M. Grieg-Gran, N. Neves. 2009

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1. R. Fletcher
2. Sven Wunder
3. A. Angelsen
4. A. Hejnowicz
5. Bram Büscher
6. Roy Brouwer
7. D. Raffaelli
8. I. Bond

Citations in the corpus

• When payments for environmental services will work for conservation (2013, background): “In Asia, China and Vietnam apart, the situation is not much better (Ferraro 2009; Huang et al. 2009; Porras et al. 2008).”
• Evaluating the outcomes of payments for ecosystem services programmes using a capital asset framework (2014, background): “(Based on adjustments to Wunder's (2005) definition by Porras et al. (2008) and Ferraro (2009)) (2) The influence of PES interventions on specific environmental, socio-economic and/or institutional outcomes ought to be identifiable (1) PES intervention is not the main aspect of the study assessed…”
• Incentives to Sustain Forest Ecosystem Services: A Review and Lessons for REDD (2009, background): “Recent work on payments for watershed services also concludes that these mechanisms have not yet directly impacted on poverty reduction to any great extent, although their indirect impacts have significant potential for poverty reduction (Porras et al. 2008; Bond and Mayers 2009).”
• Meta-analysis of institutional-economic factors explaining the environmental performance of payments for watershed services (2011, methodology): “…a binary variable reflecting whether the environmental objectives of the PWS schemes were met (or not), based on a combination of information provided in Porras et al. (2008), on the watershed markets website, in available scientific publications about the PWS schemes and retrieved from the survey.”
• The PES Conceit: Revisiting the Relationship between Payments for Environmental Services and Neoliberal Conservation (2017, background): “…commentators call for integration of concerns for social and environmental justice, equity, and poverty alleviation alongside themore traditional emphasis on programme efficiency and ecosystem function (Porras et al. 2008; Muradian et al. 2013; Pascual et al., 2014; Van Hecken et al. 2015a).”