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| Title | An introduction to the conceptual basis of RUPES | | Author | Meine van Noordwijk, Fiona Chandler and Thomas P Tomich | | Year | 2004 | | Project series (series title) | RUPES Working Paper No. 2004_2 | | Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office | | City of Publication | Bogor, Indonesia | | Number of Pages | 46 | | Physic description | 30 cm | | Call Number | WP0057-05 | | Keywords | Payments for Environmental Services, Poverty, Uplands, RUPES |
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| Payments for environmental services are normally discussed in terms of ‘buyers’ and
‘sellers’ – as if there are only two sides of a coin. Taking this analogy, we may see the
‘brokers’ (those that act as a third party between the buyers and the sellers) as the
third side of the coin. However, the chance that a coin will land on this side and reach a
stable equilibrium is small – it normally falls to either of the two other sides.
What is presented are twenty ‘aspects’ of Rewarding the Upland Poor in Asia for
Environmental Services They Provide (RUPES), suggesting that rewarding upland poor for environmental services ES is a well-polished diamond, rather than a coin. All these aspects can co-exist and all reveal insights into what is at the core, yet none of them are the full and only truth.
Overall it is hoped that this collection of aspects can stimulate the wider intellectual
debate and practical exploration and testing that we need to achieve the double goals of poverty alleviation and environmental protection that the world community has set
itself as Millennium Development Goals. |
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