Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions
Muradian, Roldan (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Arsel, Murat (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
Pellegrini, Lorenzo (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
Adaman, Fikret (Bogǎziçi University)
Aguilar González, Bernardo (Fundación Neotrópica)
Agarwal, Bina (University of Mancheste)
Corbera, Esteve (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Ezzine-de-Blas, Driss (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD))
Farley, Joshua (University of Vermont)
Froger, Géraldine (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
Garcia-Frapolli, Eduardo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Gómez-Baggethun, Erik (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Gowdy, John (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Kosoy, Nicolas (McGill University)
Le Coq, Jean-François (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD))
Leroy, Philippe (Radboud University Nijmegen)
May, Peter (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro)
Méral, Philippe (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)
Mibielli, Paulo (Universidade Estácio de Sá)
Norgaard, Richard (University of California)
Ozkaynak, Begüm (Bogǎziçi University)
Pascual, Unai 1973- (University of Cambridge)
Pengue, Walter (Universidad de General Sarmiento)
Perez, Mario (Universidad del Valle)
Pesche, Denis (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD))
Pirard, Romain (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI))
Ramos Martín, Jesús (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Rival, Laura (University of Oxford)
Sáenz-Segura, Fernando (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro)
Van Hecken, Gert (Universiteit van Antwerpen)
Vatn, Arild (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Vira, Bhaskar (University of Cambridge)
Urama, Kevin (African Technology Policy Studies Network)

Date:	2013
Abstract:	In this commentary we critically discuss the suitability of payments for ecosystem services and the most important challenges they face. While such instruments can play a role in improving environmental governance, we argue that over-reliance on payments as win-win solutions might lead to ineffective outcomes, similar to earlier experience with integrated conservation and development projects. Our objective is to raise awareness, particularly among policy makers and practitioners, about the limitations of such instruments and to encourage a dialogue about the policy contexts in which they might be appropriate. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Rights:	Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Ecosystem services ; Enviromental governace ; Integrated conservation and development projects ; Market-based policy tools ; Payments for ecosystem services
Published in:	Conservation letters, Vol. 6 (2013) , p. 274-279, ISSN 1755-263X

DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00309.x

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