© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org T Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) advanced a powerful vision for the future (MA 2005), and now it is time to deliver. The vision of the MA – and of the prescient ecologists and economists whose work formed its foundation – is a world in which people and institutions appreciate natural systems as vital assets, recognize the cent...

Conservation investments are increasingly being implemented through payments for ecosystem services (PES) for the protection and restoration of ecosystem services around the world. Previous studies suggested that social norms have substantial impacts on environmental behaviors of humans, including enrollment of PES programs. However, it is still not well understood how social norms are affected...

Payments for Environmental or Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes have become a popular tool to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable management of ecosystem services. We use meta-regression analysis on sample 110 individual studies investigate the determinants effectiveness, defined as probability increase services (ES) provision, about 149 PES-schemes implemented worldwide. f...

This paper identifies new ways of moving from land degradation towards sustainable land management through the development of economic mechanisms. It identifies new mechanisms to tackle land degradation based on retaining critical levels of natural capital whilst basing livelihoods on a wider range of ecosystem services. This is achieved through a case study analysis of the Kalahari rangelands ...

The digitization of physical wallets into mobile applications is a promising trend, namely for payments, personal identification, and for grouping marketing items or digital tickets. Mobile digital services emerge on these areas promising to bring ease and convenience for wallet owners and, for place owners, lower costs on payment processing fees, increased service efficiency and a closer relat...

In a seminal and underappreciated book, Green Imperialism, Grove (1995) explains the rise of a global environmental consciousness as a result of European colonial expansion. Grove details how, by the mid-seventeenth century, “. . . a coherent and relatively organized awareness of the ecological impact of the demands of emergent capitalism and colonial rule started to develop, to grow into a ful...

background: informal payments in the health sector of many developing countries are considered as a major impediment to health care reforms. informal payments are a form of systemic fraud and have adverse effects on the performance of the health system. in this study, the frequency and extent of informal payments as well as the determinants of these payments were investigated in general hospita...