Mobile banking is more easily and fast banking today, but its challenges to payments security system. Many organization or financial institutions are now incorporating mobile banking and financial services as a key component of their growth strategy, and use of the mobile phone to conduct banking and financial services tasks continues to rise among early adopters. Large number of security chall...

We examine whether using a payment for ecosystem services (PES) framework agri-environmental programs could increase farmer participation through mixed methods approach. assess the institutional design of two U.S. programs, Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Conservation Reserve Enhancement (CREP), in Lake Champlain Basin northeastern US, where managing eutrophication from phos...

Session abstract: Sustainable natural resource management has become of crucial importance in the face of new challenges such as climate change and accelerated environmental degradation in a world of 7 billion people. In response, current international neoliberal policy formulation and implementation is focused around the management of comodified ‘ecosystem services’ such as carbon storage and ...

The aim of this work was to elucidate the socio-cultural and economic value of a number of ecosystem services delivered by mountain agroecosystems (mostly grazing systems) in Euro-Mediterranean regions. We combined deliberative (focus groups) and survey-based stated-preference methods (choice modelling) to, first, identify the perceptions of farmers and other citizens on the most important ecos...

One of the main debates surrounding payments for ecosystem services (PES) is to what extent should PES design focus on social equity concerns. While much debate centered around theoretical arguments, here we empirically question whether there are trade-offs between social-environmental effectiveness and in implementation. Towards this end, use a survey targeted at 61 practitioners 12 Latin Amer...