Recent Publications

• Southgate, D. & Wunder, S. (in press). Paying for watershed services in Latin America: A review of current initiatives. Journal of Sustainable Forestry (accepted).
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• Wunder, S. & Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S. (in press). Payments for ecosystem services: a new way of doing forest conservation. Journal of Sustainable Forestry.
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• Blanco, J.T., Wunder, S. Navarrete, F. 2008. La experiencia colombiana de pagos por servicios ambientales, In: S.C. Ortega (ed.), Reconocimiento de los Servicios Ambientales: Una Oportunidad para la Gestión de los Recursos Naturales en Colombia, pp.109-17. Bogotá: Minambiente, UASPNN, WWF, CI, TNC, 203pp.
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• Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S., Kongphan-Apirak, M. & Wunder, S. 2008. Reducing forest emissions in the Amazon Basin: A review of drivers of land-use change and how payments for environmental services (PES) schemes can affect them. CIFOR Working Paper #40, CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia, pp.26.
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• Wunder, S. 2008. Necessary conditions for ecosystem service payments. Paper presented to the conference Economics and Conservation in the Tropics: A Strategic Dialogue. Moore Foundation/ CSF/ RFF, San Francisco, Jan 31 – Feb 1. Conference Paper Series,
  http://www.rff.org/News/Features/Pages/ConservationStrategiesintheTropics.aspx

• Kindermann, G., Obersteiner, M., Sohngen, B., Sathaye, J., Andrasko, K., Rametsteiner, E., Schlamadinger, B., Wunder, S., & Beach, R. 2008. Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation. Procedures of the National Academy of Science 105 (30): 10302-10307 doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710616105,
  http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/07/23/0710616105/suppl/DCSupplemental

• Wunder, S. 2008. How should we deal with leakage? In: A. Angelsen (ed.) Moving ahead with REDD: issues, options and implications, pp.67-76. CIFOR: Bogor,
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• Micol, L., Andrade, J., Boerner, J., with R. dos Santos & S.Wunder 2008. Redução das emissões do desmatamento e da degradação (REDD): potencial de aplicação em Mato Grosso. Alta Floresta: Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV), 92 pp,
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• Asquith, N.M., Vargas, M.T. & Wunder, S. 2008. Selling two environmental services: In-kind payments for bird habitat and watershed protection in Los Negros, Bolivia. Ecological Economics 65 (4): 675-684.
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• Asquith, N. & Wunder, S. (eds). 2008. Payments for Watershed Services: The Bellagio Conversations. Fundación Natura Bolivia: Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
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• Börner, J.& Wunder, S. 2008. Paying for avoided deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: from cost assessment to scheme design, International Forestry Review 10(3): 496-511.
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• Engel, S., Pagiola, S., & Wunder, S. 2008. Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: an overview of the issues. Ecological Economics 65 (4): 663-674.
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• Frost, P.G.H., & Bond, I. 2008. The CAMPFIRE programme in Zimbabwe: Payments for wildlife services, Ecological Economics 65 (4): 776-787.
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• Wunder, S. 2008. Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidence. Environment and Development Economics 13 (3): 279-297.
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• Wunder, S. & Albán, M. 2008. Decentralized payments for environmental services: the cases of Pimampiro and PROFAFOR in Ecuador. Ecological Economics 65(4): 685-698
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• Wunder, S., Campbell, B., Frost, P.G.H., Iwan, R., Sayer, J.A., & Wollenberg, E. 2008. When donors get cold feet: The community conservation concession in Setulang (Kalimantan, Indonesia) that never happened. Ecology and Society, 13(1): 12; URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art12/
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• Wunder, S., Engel, S., & Pagiola, S. 2008. Taking stock: a comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries. Ecological Economics 65 (4): 834-852.
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• Wünscher, T., Engel, S. & Wunder, S. 2008. Spatial targeting of payments for environmental services: a tool for boosting conservation benefits. Ecological Economics 65 (4): 822-833.
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