To pay or not to pay? Monitoring performance and enforcing conditionality when paying for forest conservation in Mexico

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 120-128

  Honey Rosés, Jordi ^a   López García, José ^b   Rendón Salinas, Eduardo ^a   Peralta Higuera, Armando ^b   Galindo Leal, Carlos ^a,c  

^a WWF Mexico Program   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y el Uso de la Biodiversidad ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Direct payment; Logging; Mexico; Monarch butterfly; Payment for environmental services; Photointerpretation; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; BIOSPHERE RESERVE; CENTRAL CORE; DECISION RULES; DIGITAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; ECOSYSTEM DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; FIELD SAMPLING; FOREST CHANGE; FOREST CONSERVATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; LANDSAT SATELLITE; LOGGING; ME-XICO; MONITORING METHODS; MONITORING PERFORMANCE; NEW STRATEGY; PAYMENT DECISION; PIXEL RESOLUTION; POLICY OBJECTIVES; PROGRAMME MANAGER; PROTECTED AREAS; SOUND DECISION;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOINTERPRETATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BUTTERFLY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LANDOWNER; LOGGING (TIMBER); PROTECTED AREA; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR CRAFT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LOGGING; PAYMENT; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; SATELLITES;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 77951623528     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892909990063     Document Type: Article

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