Ecosystem services, agriculture, and rural poverty in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon: Interrelationships and policy prescriptions

By J. Börner, A. Mendoza, S. Vosti. 2007

120 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. B. Matzdorf
2. Sarah Schomers
3. S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff
4. J. Börner
5. M. R. Tito
6. L. Pereira
7. N. Nascimento
8. Sven Wunder

In Soil Science

1. S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff
2. Sven Wunder
3. Sarah Schomers
4. B. Matzdorf
5. Shixiong Cao
6. J. Börner
7. A. Angelsen

Citations in the corpus

• Impact of China's Large-Scale Ecological Restoration Program on the Environment and Society in Arid and Semiarid Areas of China: Achievements, Problems, Synthesis, and Applications (2011, background): “At this point, policy interest generally wanes, and agriculture and the environment begin slow declines in ecosystem service exchange, often with negative consequences for rural poverty ( Borner et al, 2007 ).”
• Paying for Avoided Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: from Cost Assessment to Scheme Design (2008, unknown): “…opportunity costs of forest conservation using various approaches, ranging from economic optimization or general equilibrium models (Cattaneo 2002, Börner et al. 2007) to land prices being used as surrogates for the discounted stream of future deforestation returns - see Grieg-Gran (2006) for a…”
• The political ecology of ecosystem services (2015, unknown): “Second, even if the farmers received the payments (which rarely occurred), they would have lost money adopting the prescribed practices due to increased labor demands (Börner et al., 2007).”
• Payments for ecosystem services: A review and comparison of developing and industrialized countries (2013, methodology): “Under the Proambiente program smallholder payment schemes were developed to remunerated farmers for the provision of ecosystem services, such as the ‘‘(i) reduction or avoidance of deforestation; (ii) carbon sequestration; (iii) recuperation of ecosystem hydrological functions; (iv) soil conservatio”
• Direct conservation payments in the Brazilian Amazon: Scope and equity implications (2010, background): “Unequal land distribution in the Brazilian Amazon, for example, means that regulatory mandated reductions in deforestation will especially hurt smallholder families struggling to maintain soil productivity in traditional slash-and-burn systems on relatively small plots: they are often unable to comp”