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| Title | Pro-poor compensation and rewards for environmental services in the tropics: Saving the Commons in Asia, Africa and Latin America? | | Author | World Agroforestry Centre | | Year | 2010 | | Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office | | City of Publication | Bogor, Indonesia | | Number of Pages | 117 | | Call Number | BK0144-10 |
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| Through the Millennium Development Goals world leaders promised to deal with poverty while enhancing sustainable development and international cooperation. These three goals come together in efforts to pay, compensate or reward for the environmental services that are (still) provided by upland communities. Where these services benefit downstream people that are less poor than the people in the uplands, forms of payment can be both fair and efficient. Where the services are provided as global goods, as is the case with biodiversity conservation and net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, payments and investment can and should be made by beneficiaries overseas. The words ‘Payments for Environmental Services’ (PES) have become the label for a wide array of approaches and methodologies in this domain. It is a field of active research on the interface of knowledge and action. The subset of ‘pro-poor’ forms of such mechanisms is still under debate: is it desirable? is it even possible? should the old adage’ one instrument per policy objective, one objective per policy instrument’ still apply? |
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