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OVERVIEW

1. Payments for Environmental Services (PES): An Overview of the Options and Challenges for Mountain Systems and People
   Frans Neuman, Laura Keenan, Ujol Sherchan, Klas Sander, Laxman Joshi, David Huberman, Bhaskar Karky


FEATURE ARTICLES

2. Payment for Environmental Services: The Need for Redefinition?
   Beria Leimona and Rudolf de Groot
3. Addressing Equity and Poverty Concerns in Payments for Environmental Services
   Michael Kollmair and Golam Rasul
4. Delivering Environmental Services in Landscapes: Experiences with PES through IUCN's Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
   David Huberman and Gill Shepherd
5. Can Payments Improve Environmental Services on Farmland?
   Frank van Schoubroeck, Noureddine Nasr and Mathilde Maijer
6. Rewards for Environmental Services and Collective Land Tenure: Lessons from Ecuador and Indonesia
   Kelly Wendland, Lisa Naughton, Luis Suarez and Suyanto


INTERVIEW

7. Environmental Services, Equity and Productivity: Interview with Dr. Meine van Noordwijk, Global Science Advisor at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
   Laura Keenan and Sunita Chaudhary


REGION-SPECIFIC ARTICLES

ASIA PACIFIC

8. Snow Leopards and "Himalayan Homestays": Catalysts For Community-Based Conservation in Mountain Areas
   Richen Wangchuk, Rodney Jackson and Wendy Brewer Lama
9. Khasi Community Landscape Restoration and Conservation Project: Mawhplang Lyngdohship, Meghalaya
   Mark Poffenberger
10. Valuing Watersheds in Rural Landscapes: A Case Study from Nepal
    Navraj Pradhan, Isabelle Providoli, Bimal Regmi and Gandhiv Kafle
11. Tourism and Payments for Environmental Services: The Outlook for a Stronger Business Case to Develop Rural Tourism in Bhutan
    Nanda Ritsma, John Hummel and Phuntsho Gyeltshen
12. Local Government-Led PES for Watershed Protection: Cases from the Philippines
    Delia C. Catacutan, Grace Villamor and Caroline D. Pinon
13. Using Barren Land for Afforestation: Assessing the Results of the First Registered CDM Forestry Project
    Chongying Chen
14. Honeybees as Providers of Pollination Services in the Himalayas
    Uma Partap
15. Valuing the Services Provided by Forests and Agro-Ecosystems in the Central Himalaya
    Girish C. S Negi, R L. Semwal
16. Valuing Environmental Services for Recreation in the Margalla Hills National Park, Islamabad
    Himayatullah Khan
17. Payment for Environmental Services for Sustainable Water Management in Loktak Lake, Manipur
    Ritesh Kumar
18. Payment for Forest Environmental Services: A Pilot Government Policy in the Dong Nai River Basin, Vietnam
    Nguyen Tuan Phu, Nguyen Chi Thanh
19. Using a Biogas Scheme to Control Soil Erosion on Sloping Lands, North Vietnam
    D. Orange, L. Dardenne, P. Geier, Nguyen Duy Phuong, P. Jouquet and Tran Duc Toan
20. Payments for Carbon Sequestration in the Philippines: Lessons and Implicat
    Rodel D. Lasco, Emma Abasolo, Grace Vilamor


EUROPE

21. Protecting Environmental Services in Vittel, France: A Business Opportunity for the Private Sector
    Danièle Perrot-Maître
22. The Rhön Biosphere Reserve: Developing New Financing Options to Conserve a Traditional Agricultural Landscape
    Richard Robinson and Laura Keenan
23. Introduction to the SARD-M Project: An Initiative of FAO, Rome, for Remuneration of Positive Externalities in Mountain Regions
    Jean Gault
24. Organic Farming: Enhancing Environmental Services from Farmland in Austria
    Gerhard Hovorka and Thomas Dax


LATIN AMERICA

25. Paying for Environmental Services: Using the Contingent Valuation Method to Estimate Willingness to Pay for Conservation in the Sho?llet Forest, Peru
    Gabriella Torres Alva
26. Conservation of Water Sources in Moyobamba: A Brief Review of the First Experience in Payments for Environmental Services in Peru
    Fernando León and Isabel Renner
27. Payments for the Protection of Watershed Services: A Potential Tool for Improving Protection of 'Paper Parks' in Latin America?
    Catherine Schloegel
28. Using Water Funds to finance Watershed Conservation in the Andes and Costa Rica
    Silvia Benitez, Alfonso Blanco, Jorge Hole, Mercedes Ibáñez, Juan José Rodriguez, Stephan Halloy
29. The Cloud Forests of Quillosara: A Local Government Initiative to Establish a Compensation Mechanism for Environmental Services in Ecuador
    Robert Yaguache and Mario Cossio
30. Compensation for Hydrological Services in Bolivia: The Comarapa Municipal Water Fund
    Maria Teresa Vargas, Mauricio Forno, Stephanie Secomb and Julian Torrico
31. Complementary Environmental Service Reward Programmes for Sustainable Mosaic Landscapes in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico
    Yatziri Zepeda, Goetz Schroth, Ricardo Hernandez
32. A Case of Voluntary Collection for Environmental Services, Zapalinamé, Mexico
    Cecilia Ochoa Blackaller


NORTH AMERICA

33. The Voluntary Gopher Tortoise Habitat Credit Trading System
    Todd Gartner


AFRICA

34. Using Payments for Environmental Services to Improve Conservation in a Tunisian Watershed
    Lelia Croitura and Hamed Daly-Hassen
35. From Poachers to Park Wardens: Revenue Sharing Scheme as an Incentive for Environmental Protection in Rwanda
    Ritah Tusabe and Straton Habyalimana


BOOK REVIEW

36. Can Nepal Benefit from Forest Carbon Financing: An Assessment of Opportunities, Challenges and Possible Action
    Yamuna Ghale


USEFUL RESOURCES

37. Link to Useful Resources