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Payment potentials and limits for environmental services in programmes fighting desertification Volume 23, issue 3, Juillet-Août-Septembre 2012

Authors
Inra UMR Lameta Place Viala 34060 Montpellier France, CNRS UMR Lameta Place Viala 34060 Montpellier France

Payments for environmental services aim at creating incentives to maintain and develop the benefits provided by nature. Beyond the apparent commodification of these services, the objective is to strengthen strategies directed at improving the relations between ecosystem functioning and the organization of human societies. What are the origins, the natures, the relevancies of these mechanisms? How do they function? What are the interests and the limits of such policy instruments? How can they be useful within strategies aimed at managing desertification issues?