Payments for ecosystem services: Evolution towards efficient and fair incentives for multifunctional landscapes

This review analyses the concept of Payment for
Ecosystem Services (PES) in the context of developing
countries and explores the way paradigms and
approaches are perceived and influenced by countries
with different histories of land-use patterns, land
ownership, tenure regimes, rural population densities
and degrees of market integration.
PES can be understood through a “negotiation
support” perspective where multiple knowledge
and value systems interact and shape a negotiation
platform and its outcomes.