Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are being considered worldwide with great interest and expectation. Proposals to create agreements in which beneficiar

The book examines concurrent green initiatives and their spillover effects on environmental conservation and management to reveal their impact on conservation e

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention. While they may seem to be unre

With a strong policy focus, the contributors synthesise the scientific approaches to PES, valuation, trade-offs, equity and the institutional requirements to op