Market-Based Approaches to Environmental Management: A Review of Lessons from Payment for Environmental Services in Asia
Published By: ADBI on eSS | Published Date: March, 20 , 2009Market-based approaches to environmental management, such as payment for
environmental services (PES), have attracted unprecedented attention during the past
decade. PES policies, in particular, have emerged to realign private and social benefits such
as internalizing ecological externalities and diversifying sources of conservation funding as
well as making conservation an attractive land-use paradigm. In this paper, we review
several case studies from Asia on payment for environmental services to understand how
landowners decide to participate in PES schemes. [WP 134].
Author(s): Bhim Adhikari | Posted on: Jan 20, 2010 | Views(1285) | Download (126)