Designing pro-poor rewards for ecosystem services: lessons from the United States?
File(s):
- LTC Brief 8 (245.9Kb PDF)
- Author(s)
- Publisher
- Land Tenure Center, Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin
- Date
- Mar 2008
- Subject(s)
- United States; public land policy; land tenure; payments for ecosystem services
- Series
- Tenure brief, no. 8
- Abstract
- The United States has experimented with its version of rewards for ecosystem services for close to 80 years. In general, market forces are used to reward land users for protecting the environment. This LTC Brief examines the US experience and investigates if the lessons can be adapted to tenure regimes in the developing world.
- Description
- 9 p.
- Permanent link
- http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/37439
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