CNH-L: People, Place, and Payments in Complex Human-Environment Systems

Principal Investigators

Senior Personnel

gRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Ren Cao (Ph.D. student)
  • My Thu Tran (Ph.D. student)

 

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Brief Introduction

This project (NSF website) seeks to advance the understanding of the impact of payments for ecosystem services (PES), a global conservation approach that incentivizes users of essential natural resources to protect the related ecosystems. In recent decades these programs have increased in popularity, and an increasing number of parallel PES programs have been deployed to mitigate environmental degradation and the over-exploitation of natural resources. PES programs are often implemented concurrently in the same temporal and spatial context, yet little understanding exists about the mechanisms, pathways, and social and ecological effects of such interacting, parallel PES programs.

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