Designing pro-poor rewards for ecosystem services: lessons from the United States?

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Date
2008-03Author
Jacobs, Harvey Martin
Publisher
Land Tenure Center, Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin
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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.
Subject
United States
public land policy
land tenure
payments for ecosystem services
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http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/37439Type
Technical Report
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9 p.