Kaiser, J., D. Haase, and T. Krueger. 2021. Payments for ecosystem services: a review of definitions, the role spatial scales, critique. Ecology Society 26(2):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12307-260212

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs use an incentive-based approach to pursue environmental goals. While they are common policy tools, key concepts determining their efficacy nuanced and hard grasp. This article presents a new interactive game that explores the functioning implications of PES programs. Participants play role rural households in developing country, deciding individual...

Predicting technological innovations in financial information systems (IS) and technology ecosystems has been challenging for technology forecasters and industry analysts due to their underlying complexity. Technology-based financial innovations over the past four decades, such as programmed trading in the 1980s, risk-adjusted return on capital-based financial risk management systems in the 199...

The payment industry has been characterized by a small number of players that operate the schemes for the facilitation of credit and debit card payments. Over the years, various initiatives have been taken in order to increase competition and hence cost efficiency within the industry. One of the latest efforts is the introduction of Payment Service Directive II (PSDII) within the European Union...