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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives often aim to incentivize the joint adoption of forest protection and sustainable management practices. This research in Chiapas, Mexico, shows the limits of PES when parachuted into a context of uneven land tenure, weak collective action and contested leaderships.
A new special issue in Development and Change, guest edited by Laseg member Esteve Corbera, collects evidence on the implementation of Payments for Ecosystem Services programmes and shows how local people adopt such exogenous, and 'neoliberal' conservation approach to transform their lives and institutions in unexpected and sometimes advantageous ways.
New special issue focused on climate change policies, natural resources and conflict
Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and Esteve Corbera from ICTA-UAB have been awarded with a research grant from La Caixa Foundation to study processes of socio-vulnerability vulnerability in rural Spain.
Lina Moros and Laia d'Armengol-Catà defended their PhD dissertations with great success!
An international 2-day workshop on Conservation, Climate Change and Decolonisation, hosted by Laseg and the Sheffield Institute of International Development, University of Sheffield.
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives often aim to incentivize the joint adoption of forest protection and sustainable management practices. This research in Chiapas, Mexico, shows the limits of PES when parachuted into a context of uneven land tenure, weak collective action and contested leaderships.
Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and Esteve Corbera from ICTA-UAB have been awarded with a research grant from La Caixa Foundation to study processes of socio-vulnerability vulnerability in rural Spain.
A new special issue in Development and Change, guest edited by Laseg member Esteve Corbera, collects evidence on the implementation of Payments for Ecosystem Services programmes and shows how local people adopt such exogenous, and 'neoliberal' conservation approach to transform their lives and institutions in unexpected and sometimes advantageous ways.
Lina Moros and Laia d'Armengol-Catà defended their PhD dissertations with great success!
New special issue focused on climate change policies, natural resources and conflict
An international 2-day workshop on Conservation, Climate Change and Decolonisation, hosted by Laseg and the Sheffield Institute of International Development, University of Sheffield.