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Payments for environmental services? A solution for biodiversity conservation?

Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff
Idées pour le débat N°12/2006. Iddri, 2006. 17 p.
Direct payments for environmental services (PES) are increasingly becoming subject of development strategies as means to finance biodiversity conservation. Assessing its economic, social and environmental impact, the note concludes that PES can present a promising tool notably to internalize indirect use values derived from ecosystems.