Payments for Ecosystem Services: A Best Practice Guide

Author or Publisher: 

Defra

Date: 

2013

Format: 

Guidebook

Language: 

EN

Focus of material: 

Application

Target group: 

Participants in a PES scheme (implementers, practitioners, NGOs, experts, policy makers, business…)

Description: 

An expert consortium with hands-on experience of developing Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes was commissioned to develop a Best Practice Guide in collaboration with potential users. This Guide collates a number of instructive domestic and international case studies (covered in detail in the annex) demonstrating the various challenges and solutions associated with a PES approach. This authoritative, practical and business-focused Guide will help users to: understand the principles of PES; identify and test potential opportunities and suitable partners for PES; find solutions to technical, legal and institutional issues.

Fitness for material development: 

Direct use

Keywords: 

PES, best practices, business