Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions

Win-win Theory for Win-win Success

THE INTELLECTUAL INVENTION THAT SURPASSES ALL OTHERS AS THE MOST BENEFICIAL ADVANCE OF HUMAN HISTORY IS RARELY UNDERSTOOD OR APPRECIATED BY EDUCATED ADULTS. With dire consequences for such neglect, there has been no applause for this wondrous invention, no gratitude for its beneficence, no monuments to hail its priceless influence. Largely overlooked, ignored, or taken for granted, this unceleb...

Conservation and livelihood outcomes of payment for ecosystem services in the Ecuadorian Andes_ What is the potential for ‘win–win’?

Payment for ecosystem services programs are being implemented in a wide variety of settings, but whether and in what contexts such programs present ‘win–win’ scenarios that simultaneously improve human wellbeing and achieve conservation goals remains poorly understood. Based on semi-structured interviews with early program participants enrolling either collectivelyor individually-held land, we ...

Creating a Sustainable Business Model and a Win-Win Ecosystem

This chapter describes a new sustainable business model, Innovation 2.0, led and deployed by the author, with the goal of increasing the innovation level at the telco service portfolio for the end-user, thank to the convergence of Internet and Telco worlds and the ‘fresh’ and ‘effervescent’ proposals created by start-ups. This model, created by Win Win Consultants, a Spanish company leader in m...

The Win - Win Solution

1. The following four books are all reviewed together by William Gasarch. Fair Division: From Cake Cutting to Dispute Resolution) , by Brams and Taylor, Cake Cutting: Be Fair if You Can by Robertson and Webb, The Win-Win Solution by Brams and Taylor, and Fair Allocation (Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Vol 33) Edited by H. Peyton Young. These books all deal with the problem of f...

Win-win-solutions in Spatial Planning in Germany