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Asset-building schemes relating to Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)A PES scheme is a transparent system for the additional provision of environmental services through conditional payments to voluntary providers (e.g., farmers or landowners) (Tacconi, 2012). See Wunder (2015) for an overview of de... More aim to restore an area’s environmental servicesare the services that humans render to each other to maintain or increase certain ecosystem services (Karsenty, 2013). Environmental services are a sub-group of ecosystem services that are characterised by externalities (FAO, 2007... More, for example (re)planting trees in a treeless, degraded landscape. Conservation-opportunity and protection costs aside, PES schemes may here also compensate the direct costs of establishing ES, often through investments within agricultural systems (Pagiola et al., 2004 cited by Wunder, 2005).
See also: Use-restricting schemesUse-restricting Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes reward providers for conservation, for capping resource extraction and land development, or for fully setting aside areas, such as for protected habitats. Here, landown... More
References
Wunder, S., 2005. Payments for Environmental Servicesare the services that humans render to each other to maintain or increase certain ecosystem services (Karsenty, 2013). Environmental services are a sub-group of ecosystem services that are characterised by externalities (FAO, 2007... More: Some Nuts and Bolts. CIFOR Occasional Paper No. 42. Centre for International Forestry Research: Bogor.
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is a subfield of economics that integrates insights from psychology in the analysis of economic decision-making. It is commonly known for focusing on heuristics (rules of thumb as opposed to maximisation behavior) and biases (deviations from the homo economicus model/expected utility theory, e.g., loss aversion). Related fields are experimental economicssubfield of economics that uses experimental methods/economic experiments to study individual and collective decision-making. By giving the researcher freedom to manipulate factors of interest, difficulties to establish causal rel... More and behavioral economists commonly apply economic experimentstypically use (cash) incentives to study economic decision-making under controlled conditions in abstract (laboratory) or somewhat contextualised (field) settings. More.
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are contracts between two individuals or parties. Parties can be organisations, businesses, agencies.
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A business modelA business model describes the rationale of how an organisation creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts (Osterwalder and Pigneur, 2010). The process of business model construction and... More describes the rationale of how an organisation creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts (Osterwalder and Pigneur, 2010). The process of business modelA business model describes the rationale of how an organisation creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts (Osterwalder and Pigneur, 2010). The process of business model construction and... More construction and modification is also called business modelA business model describes the rationale of how an organisation creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts (Osterwalder and Pigneur, 2010). The process of business model construction and... More innovation and forms a part of business strategy (Geissdoerfer et al., 2017). One role of business models is to provide a set of generic level descriptors of how a firm organises itself to create and distribute value in a profitable manner (Baden-Fuller and Morgan, 2010).
References
Baden-Fuller, C. and M. Morgan, 2010. Business models as models. Long Range Planning, 43 (2–3) 156-171. DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2010.02.005
Geissdoerfer, M., P. Savaget and S. Evans, 2017.The Cambridge business modelA business model describes the rationale of how an organisation creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts (Osterwalder and Pigneur, 2010). The process of business model construction and... More innovation process. Procedia Manufacturing 8: 262-269. DOI: 10.1016/j.promfg.2017.02.033
Osterwalder, A. and Y. Pigneur, 2010. Business ModelA business model describes the rationale of how an organisation creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts (Osterwalder and Pigneur, 2010). The process of business model construction and... More Generation: a Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers. John Wiley & Sons.
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People working jointly towards a common goal, involving regular interaction among the collaborating individuals. May also apply to organisations. Belongs to the range of collective approaches.
Synonym: CooperationSee collaboration. More
