Authors
Roldan Muradian, Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Fikret Adaman, Bernardo Aguilar, Bina Agarwal, Esteve Corbera, Driss Ezzine de Blas, Joshua Farley, Géraldine Froger, Eduardo Garcia‐Frapolli, Erik Gómez‐Baggethun, John Gowdy, Nicolas Kosoy, Jean-François Le Coq, Philippe Leroy, Peter May, Philippe Méral, Paulo Mibielli, Richard Norgaard, Begüm Ozkaynak, Unai Pascual, Walter Pengue, Mario Perez, Denis Pesche, Romain Pirard, Jesus Ramos‐Martin, Laura Rival, Fernando Saenz, Gert Van Hecken, Arild Vatn, Bhaskar Vira, Kevin Urama
Publication date
2013/7
Journal
Conservation letters
Volume
6
Issue
4
Pages
274-279
Description
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.
Scholar articles
R Muradian, M Arsel, L Pellegrini, F Adaman, B Aguilar… - Conservation letters, 2013