A5070790522- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Management and Policy
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Mining and Resource Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Water resources management and optimization
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Duke University
2013-2024
St Nicholas Hospital
2013-2017
Texas A&M University
2014
ABSTRACT Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives, which provide financial incentives management practices thought to increase the production of environmental benefits, have expanded across global South since late 1990s. These initiatives thus far been conceptualized rather narrowly; by their early proponents as a novel economic instrument more ‘rational’, effective and efficient policy or critics an exogenously imposed conduit hegemonic neoliberalism. This introductory article...
Abstract Natural resource managers are often expected to achieve both environmental protection and economic development even when there fundamental trade‐offs between these goals. Adaptive management provides a theoretical structure for program administrators balance social priorities in the presence of improve conservation targeting. We used case Mexico's federal Payments Hydrological Services (PSAH) illustrate importance adaptive improving documented elements PSAH corresponding changes...
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly employed to address a range of environmental issues, including biodiversity conservation, watershed protection, and climate change mitigation. PES initiatives have gained momentum since the 1990s, market enthusiasts promoted them as not only cost effective but generative social ecological co-benefits local communities. Whereas neoliberalization commodification nature has been well explored in geographic critical scholarship, there is...
Collective payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs make to groups, conditional on specified aggregate land-management outcomes. Such collective contracting may be well suited settings with communal land tenure or decision-making. Given that does not require costly individual-level information outcomes, it also facilitate conditioning additionality (i.e., upon clearly improved outcomes relative baseline). Yet often suffers from free-riding, which undermines group and exacerbated...
Coffee farmers are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, yet recommended resilience strategies often cost-prohibitive for smallholder producers and/or maladapted to local conditions and contexts. We collaborated with coffee cooperatives in Latin America assess feasibility change they selected: crop diversification; rainwater collection systems; pest monitoring management; collective seed banks nurseries; solar dryers. Data was collected through key actor cooperative leader...
The Mexican national Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, which provide financial incentives rural landholders to conserve forest, were originally designed under the logic of market-based conservation. Based on a multi-sited, multi-scalar ethnography Mexico's PES this article examines process through social movement was able redefine narrative PES, historical and political context that provided window opportunity, ways in movement's engagement led hybridization policy itself....
ABSTRACT The national Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programmes of Mexico were originally based on the neoclassical economic theory that conceptualized ecosystems as factories whose various outputs can be quantified and converted to commodities. This model PES clashed with an alternative theorization, Compensation (CES), home‐grown roots in ontological orientation contextualized experience epistemic community public intellectuals deep engagement rural Mexico. While built upon same...
Abstract Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are widely applied incentive‐based instruments with diverse objectives that increasingly include biodiversity conservation. Yet, there is a gap in understanding of how to best assess and monitor programs’ outcomes. We examined perceptions drivers engagement related monitoring through surveys among current PES participants 7 communities Mexico's Selva Lacandona. conducted workshops survey included training field deployment tools used land cover,...
Abstract This paper provides a broad evaluation of the implications market‐based conservation ( MBC ) strategies from economic, social and ecological perspectives. After reviewing economic theory that underlies initiatives, we develop list approaches have been labeled as “market‐based”, categorize them according to degree which they are free‐standing markets or require intervention state. A multidisciplinary critique reveals potential problems pitfalls due lack ability deal with dynamic...
Abstract Integrated conservation approaches (ICAs) are employed by governments, communities, and nongovernmental organizations worldwide seeking to achieve outcomes with dual benefits for biodiversity poverty alleviation. Although ICAs frequently implemented concurrently, interactions among the synergies or trade‐offs that result rarely considered during program design, implementation, evaluation. In support of more deliberate effective use ICAs, we examined four well‐known strategies:...