Evaluation of the impact of payments for environmental services on land use change in Quindío, Colombia (English)

The growing use of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) for conservation has fostered a debate on its effectiveness, but the few efforts to date to assess the impact of PES programs have been hampered by lack of data, leading to very divergent results. This paper uses data from a PES mechanism implemented in Quindío, Colombia, to examine the impact of PES on land use change. Alone among all early PES initiatives, the Silvopastoral Project included...

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Freire-González, Jaume;

Pagiola,Stefano P.;

Rios,Ana R.;
Document Date
2013/09/01
Report Number
92768
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Latin America,
Disclosure Date
2014/11/25
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Evaluation of the impact of payments for environmental services on land use change in Quindío, Colombia
Keywords
land use change

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Freire-González, Jaume; Pagiola,Stefano P.; Rios,Ana R..

Evaluation of the impact of payments for environmental services on land use change in Quindío, Colombia (English). Payments for Environmental Services (PES) learning paper ; no. 2013-2 Washington, DC : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/900351468088459094

Evaluation of the impact of payments for environmental services on land use change in Quindío, Colombia (English)

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