Title
Payments for Biodiversity Conservation in the Context of Weak Institutions - Comparison of Three Programs from Cambodia
Author(s)
Tom Clements , Ashish John , Karen Nielsen , Dara An , Setha Tan , E.J.Milner-Gulland
Published
2009
Abstract
Implementing any conservation intervention, including Payments for Ecoystem Services (PES), in the context of weak institutions is challenging. The majority of PES programs have been implemented in situations where the institutional framework and property rights are strong and target the behaviors of private landowners. By contrast, this paper compares three PES programs from a village in a forest landscape in Cambodia, where land and resource rights are poorly defined, governance is poor, species populations are low and threats are high. Featured in News: USAID RM Portal, November 22, 2011. A revised version of this paper was published in the Journal of Ecological Economics, vol 69 (2010), pp. 1283-1291.
Keywords
community-based tourism management, community-based wildlife management, pes biodiversity, community-based enterprises
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