Sven Wunder
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1413040 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sven Wunder |
| PRENOMES | Sven |
| SOBRENOME | Wunder |
| ASSINATURA | WUNDER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Center for International Forestry Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9422-0260 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1253 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Adverse selection and severe design constraints in PES
Incentivising conservation in agricultural frontier regions presents complex challenges for long-term effectiveness. This scoping study investigates the potential and limitations of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) to prevent legal deforestation of surplus Legal Reserve (LR) areas in MATOPIBA, a rapidly expanding soybean-producing region in Brazil. Specifically, we examine the feasibility and constraints of different PES designs in high-oppo…
Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe
Geographical probability of innovation development for Europe’s forests has been produced. • Results are generated by combining survey and machine learning. • Place-based factors of forests are highly explanatory of innovation development. • Wood-focused innovation tend to develop in economically viable forests. • Innovations focused on regulating ecosystems tend to develop in forests that are not economically viable. Vast majority of forestry re…
Spatial determinants of public forest subsidies
Not an easy ride
What matters most in determining European farmers’ participation in agri-environmental measures? A systematic review of the quantitative literature
Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation
Carbon offsets from voluntary avoided-deforestation projects are generated on the basis of performance in relation to ex ante deforestation baselines. We examined the effects of 26 such project sites in six countries on three continents using synthetic control methods for causal inference. We found that most projects have not significantly reduced deforestation. For projects that did, reductions were substantially lower than claimed. This reflect…
Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services
Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning (e.g. wood) and regulating (e.g. climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (e.g. recreation) services. In this paper, we assess the state and prospects of forest ecosystem services provision in Europe, introducing new data from the European collaborative research projects SINCERE, NOBEL and CLEARING HOUSE, and combining it with findings from the li…
Permanence of avoided deforestation in a Transamazon Redd+ project (Pará, Brazil)
Redd+ and equity outcomes
Quo vadis global forest governance? A transdisciplinary delphi study
Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires
Coronavirus, macroeconomy, and forests
Incentive-based conservation in Peru
Incentive-based conservation has gained ample notoriety over recent decades, particularly across Latin America where targeted incentives feature prominently in environmental services initiatives, such as for carbon storage or watershed regulation. Here we first develop an analytical framework for assessing the Peruvian initiatives of conservation incentives. We then identify six ongoing interventions that have introduced incentives conditional up…
Focus on leakage and spillovers
Governing land use to achieve sustainable outcomes is challenging, because land systems manifest complex land use spillovers—i.e. processes by which land use changes or direct interventions in land use (e.g. policy, program, new technologies) in one place have impacts on land use in another place. The ERL issue ‘Focus on Leakage: informing Land-Use Governance in a Tele-coupled World’ builds on discussions in an international expert workshop condu…
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Integrated assessment of deforestation drivers and their alignment with subnational climate change mitigation efforts
Efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) have evolved over the past decade. Early REDD+ programs and local/subnational projects used various interventions (i.e. enabling measures, disincentives and incentives), implemented by government, the commercial and non-commercial private sector, but are currently understudied vis-à-vis their effectiveness to address site-specific driv…
Selection biases and spillovers from collective conservation incentives in the Peruvian Amazon
Payments for ecosystem services are becoming popular components in strategies to conserve ecosystems and biodiversity, but their effectiveness remains poorly documented. Here we present counterfactual-based evidence on the conservation outcomes of the pilot stage of Peru's National Forest Conservation Program (NFCP). The NFCP provides direct payments to indigenous communities in the Amazon, conditional on avoided deforestation and the adoption of…
Biodiversity offsets and payments for environmental services
Why do payments for watershed services emerge? A cross-country analysis of adoption contexts
From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services
What is Redd+ achieving on the ground
REDD+ bundles of interventions are highly diverse. • There is insufficient use of counterfactuals to attribute outcomes to REDD+. • Relatively few studies focus on the carbon outcomes of REDD+. • Non-carbon effects are small or insignificant, but depend on the intervention mix. • There is a need to boost local participation in REDD+ to help achieve positive outcomes. The Paris Climate Agreement recognizes the importance of the mechanism to Reduce…
Relationships Between Ecosystem Services
Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational Redd+ initiatives
The central role of forests in climate change mitigation, as recognized in the Paris agreement, makes it increasingly important to develop and test methods for monitoring and evaluating the carbon effectiveness of REDD+. Over the last decade, hundreds of subnational REDD+ initiatives have emerged, presenting an opportunity to pilot and compare different approaches to quantifying impacts on carbon emissions. This study (1) develops a Before-After-…
Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation
An important part of conservation practice is the empirical evaluation of program and policy impacts. Understanding why conservation programs succeed or fail is essential for designing cost-effective initiatives and for improving the livelihoods of natural resource users. The evidence we seek can be generated with modern impact evaluation designs. Such designs measure causal effects of specific interventions by comparing outcomes with the interve…
Why do forest products become less available?A pan-tropical comparison of drivers of forest-resource degradation
Forest products provide an important source of income and wellbeing for rural smallholder communities across the tropics. Although tropical forest products frequently become over-exploited, only few studies explicitly address the dynamics of degradation in response to socio-economic drivers. Our study addresses this gap by analyzing the factors driving changes in tropical forest products in the perception of rural smallholder communities. Using t…
Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice
Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods
This paper presents results from a comparative analysis of environmental income from approximately 8000 households in 24 developing countries collected by research partners in CIFOR's Poverty Environment Network (PEN). Environmental income accounts for 28% of total household income, 77% of which comes from natural forests. Environmental income shares are higher for low-income households, but differences across income quintiles are less pronounced…
Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries
Poverty Alleviation and Tropical Forests-What Scope for Synergies
Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions
How can market mechanisms for forest environmental services help the poor? Preliminary lessons from Latin America
Forests, Livelihoods, and Conservation
More than 10,000 years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural smallholders across the developing world may still derive as much income from foraging forests and wildlands as from cultivating crops. These steady environmental income flows come often from public forests, and are extracted by men and women alike. However, inflexible supplies from nature, the physical hardship of harvesting, and commonly low returns limit their …
Safety Nets, Gap Filling and Forests
In the forest–livelihoods literature, forests are widely perceived to provide both common safety nets to shocks and resources for seasonal gap-filling. We use a large global-comparative dataset to test these responses. We find households rank forest-extraction responses to shocks lower than most common alternatives. For seasonal gap-filling, forest extraction also has limited importance. The minority of households using forests for coping is asse…
Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives
From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services
Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods
This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland. We use a large dataset comprising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty-seven percent of sampled households had converted forest to agriculture during the previous 12 months, clearing on average 1.21 ha. Male-headed households with abundance of male labor, living in recently settled places with high forest cover, unsurprisingly tended to c…
Quantifying the economic contribution of wild food harvests to rural livelihoods
What is Redd+ achieving on the ground
REDD+ bundles of interventions are highly diverse. • There is insufficient use of counterfactuals to attribute outcomes to REDD+. • Relatively few studies focus on the carbon outcomes of REDD+. • Non-carbon effects are small or insignificant, but depend on the intervention mix. • There is a need to boost local participation in REDD+ to help achieve positive outcomes. The Paris Climate Agreement recognizes the importance of the mechanism to Reduce…
Forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon
Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services
Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning (e.g. wood) and regulating (e.g. climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (e.g. recreation) services. In this paper, we assess the state and prospects of forest ecosystem services provision in Europe, introducing new data from the European collaborative research projects SINCERE, NOBEL and CLEARING HOUSE, and combining it with findings from the li…
Smallholder Specialization Strategies along the Forest Transition Curve in Southwestern Amazonia
Rural specialization strategies can be examined within the forest transition framework. We compared smallholder livelihood strategies between neighboring southwestern Amazonian sites at different stages along the forest transition curve. Surveys of 243 households in Pando, Bolivia and Acre, Brazil, within and outside of two major protected areas, confirmed a higher reliance on forest-based income in forest-rich Pando than in Acre. In Acre, forest…
Are Direct Payments for Environmental Services Spelling Doom for Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics
Over the past several decades, significant donor funding has been directed to sustainable forest management in the tropics, in the hope of combining forest conservation with economic gains through sustainable use. To date, this approach has produced only modest results in terms of changed silvicultural and land-use practices in this area. Direct payments for environmental services (PES) have been suggested as a promising alternative but still rem…
Relationships Between Ecosystem Services
Permanence of avoided deforestation in a Transamazon Redd+ project (Pará, Brazil)
Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires
Redd+ and equity outcomes
Macroeconomic Change, Competitiveness and Timber Production
Not an easy ride
Quo vadis global forest governance? A transdisciplinary delphi study
Integrated assessment of deforestation drivers and their alignment with subnational climate change mitigation efforts
Efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) have evolved over the past decade. Early REDD+ programs and local/subnational projects used various interventions (i.e. enabling measures, disincentives and incentives), implemented by government, the commercial and non-commercial private sector, but are currently understudied vis-à-vis their effectiveness to address site-specific driv…
Deforestation and the Uses of Wood in the Ecuadorian Andes
This study examines the use of commercial and domestic wood in nine research areas located near native Andean forests in Ecuador, its importance for the rural economy, and its relation to the pronounced deforestation process. The sale of charcoal for commercial use in restaurants is the prime source of income for producers, and may accelerate deforestation near cities. In turn, timber and firewood are of negligible commercial importance. In gener…
Ecotourism and economic incentives — an empirical approach
Poverty Alleviation and Tropical Forests-What Scope for Synergies
The Value of Tropical Forest to Local Communities
The methods used to value tropical forests have the potential to influence how policy makers and others perceive forest lands. A small number of valuation studies achieve real impact. These are generally succinct accounts supporting a specific perception. However, such reports risk being used to justify inappropriate actions. The end users of such results are rarely those who produced them, and misunderstanding of key details is a concern. One de…
Macroeconomic Change, Competitiveness and Timber Production
Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries
How can market mechanisms for forest environmental services help the poor? Preliminary lessons from Latin America
Are Direct Payments for Environmental Services Spelling Doom for Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics
Over the past several decades, significant donor funding has been directed to sustainable forest management in the tropics, in the hope of combining forest conservation with economic gains through sustainable use. To date, this approach has produced only modest results in terms of changed silvicultural and land-use practices in this area. Direct payments for environmental services (PES) have been suggested as a promising alternative but still rem…
The Efficiency of Payments for Environmental Services in Tropical Conservation
Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade‐offs by bridging the interests of landowners and external actors through compensations. Theoretical assessments praise the advantages of PES over indirect approaches, but in the tropics PES application has remained incipient. Here I aim to demystify PES and clarify its scope for applicat…
Tropical forests
Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation
Tropical deforestation is estimated to cause about one-quarter of anthropogenic carbon emissions, loss of biodiversity, and other environmental services. United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change talks are now considering mechanisms for avoiding deforestation (AD), but the economic potential of AD has yet to be addressed. We use three economic models of global land use and management to analyze the potential contribution of AD activi…
Taking stock
Selling two environmental services
Decentralized payments for environmental services
Spatial targeting of payments for environmental services
Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice
When Donors Get Cold Feet
Wunder, S., B. Campbell, P. G. H. Frost, J. A. Sayer, R. Iwan, and L. Wollenberg. 2008. When donors get cold feet: the community conservation concession in Setulang (Kalimantan, Indonesia) that never happened. Ecology and Society 13(1): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02376-130112
Show Me the Money
Many of the services supplied by nature are externalities. Economic theory suggests that some form of subsidy or contracting between the beneficiaries and the providers could result in an optimal supply of environmental services. Moreover, if the poor own resources that give them a comparative advantage in the supply of environmental services, then payments for environmental services (PES) can improve environmental and poverty outcomes. While the…
Direct conservation payments in the Brazilian Amazon
Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives
Forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon
Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions
Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods
This paper presents results from a comparative analysis of environmental income from approximately 8000 households in 24 developing countries collected by research partners in CIFOR's Poverty Environment Network (PEN). Environmental income accounts for 28% of total household income, 77% of which comes from natural forests. Environmental income shares are higher for low-income households, but differences across income quintiles are less pronounced…
Smallholder Specialization Strategies along the Forest Transition Curve in Southwestern Amazonia
Rural specialization strategies can be examined within the forest transition framework. We compared smallholder livelihood strategies between neighboring southwestern Amazonian sites at different stages along the forest transition curve. Surveys of 243 households in Pando, Bolivia and Acre, Brazil, within and outside of two major protected areas, confirmed a higher reliance on forest-based income in forest-rich Pando than in Acre. In Acre, forest…
Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods
This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland. We use a large dataset comprising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty-seven percent of sampled households had converted forest to agriculture during the previous 12 months, clearing on average 1.21 ha. Male-headed households with abundance of male labor, living in recently settled places with high forest cover, unsurprisingly tended to c…
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (45 obras) · Economics (40 obras) · Business (36 obras) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (32 obras) · Geography (30 obras) · Environmental resource management (26 obras) · Natural resource economics (23 obras) · Ecology (19 obras) · Finance (19 obras) · Ecosystem services (17 obras)