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Radical critics assert that ecosystem services-based governance interventions tend to sustain or even aggravate injustices in environmental management in the Global South. The governance interventions continue or deepen the exclusion of local people from natural resources important to their livelihoods. In the worst case, the critics find, interventions such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) can lead to the monetization of indigenous economies or local people’s dispossession in so-called ‘green grabs’. In contrast, proponents of ecosystem services argue that the new-stylegovernance interventions have the potential to make environmental management in the Global South more just. They suggest that interventions such as PES and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) can produce so-called ‘win-win’ solutions: they can help to conserve important ecosystem services …