Conservation biologists, policy makers, and citizens have identified the protection of native ecosystems in low-income nations as a global social objective. Among the more popular initiatives to achieve this objective is the use of development interventions in the peripheral areas of endangered ecosystems. Such interventions indirectly provide desirable ecosystem services through two mechanisms...

A balanced assessment of ecosystem services provided by agriculture requires a systems-level socioecological understanding of related management practices at local to landscape scales. The results from 25 years of observation and experimentation at the Kellogg Biological Station long-term ecological research site reveal services that could be provided by intensive row-crop ecosystems. In additi...

Payments for Water-Related Ecosystem Services (PWES) are increasingly popular promoting water ecological conservation, and their impact on development is of considerable interest. This study estimates the economic PWES protected areas using synthetic control method. Taking Middle Route South to North Water Diversion Project in China as a case study, we find that per capita GDP increased markedl...

Buckley Biggs, N., J. Hafner, F. E. Mashiri, L. Huntsinger, and Lambin. 2021. Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment complementarity on California rangelands. Ecology Society 26(1):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12254-260119

Under the table or informal payments in several middle and low income countries is a serious impediment to health care reform. These payments are effectively a form of systemic corruption. This report shows the efforts of a patient who seek health care for his ankle while being requested to pay under the table in hospital and private clinic. The data were collected by interview and surveying pa...