Institutions for environmental service payment programmes - evidence of community resource management arrangements in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

The role of Islamic microfinance in poverty alleviation and environmental awareness in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia

“…In their multiyear study on the short-and long-term ecological effects of shade trees in coffee and cacao agroforestry, Tscharntke et al (2011) argue that biodiversity conservation measures aiming to promote sustainable cultivation require economic incentives to be successful. Such a project would also require a clear organizational structure, to mitigate corruption, as well as the involvement of community members in the management process (Seeberg-Elverfeldt, Schwarze, and Faust 2010). Along with the integration of communities and their members into conservation policies, increasing the environmental awareness of the institutions that support these communities is itself vital.…”

Participation of Ecosystem Service Providers in a Watershed PES Project in Tanzania: Connection with the Coasean Perspectives

“…In that regard therefore, it is not objectionable that environmental degradation, particularly watershed destruction has been on the rise, leading not only to economic costs to governments and water management authorities, but also social costs, particularly to poor people who are disproportionately dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods. It is due to the failure of command and control approaches that environmental and natural resources economists, environmental scientists, conservationists and practitioners came up with an incentive-based mechanism known as Payment for Environmental Services (PES), synonymously known as payment for ecosystem services, which has attracted interest as a mechanism that translates external, non-market values of the environment into real financial incentives for local actors to provide environmental services [2].…”