ReviewHeliyon2024
Payments for ecosystem services programs: A global review of contributions towards sustainability.
Review in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Microbial diversity as the next frontier of payments for ecosystem services in nature-positive finance.npj biodiversity · 2026Review
- Strategic foresight provides insight into the resilience of climate-neutral farming transitions in a volatile world.NPJ sustainable agriculture · 2026Article
- Impact of climate change on flowering phenology of indigenous flora in Tehsil Bhimber Azad Jammu and Kashmir Pakistan.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Payments for ecosystem services programs (PESPs) are increasingly being adopted globally to enhance sustainability outcomes. There are also hundreds of studies yearly on various aspects of PESPs, but research on their contributions to sustainability of communities and the ecosystems they depend upon at the global scale are rare. Our global review explores twelve key characteristics of PESPs at three different phases (inputs - implementation - outputs and outcomes) and their relationship types of these characteristics to sustainability outcomes. To do so, we review 376 peer-review journal articles on PESPs, and test three hypotheses related to these relationships. Our findings confirm that the relationships between each of these characteristics and sustainability outcomes are bidirectional and/or multidirectional to some extent and can be positive, negative or both, depending on specific cases and research methods used to study these relationships. The findings also disclose that separating one characteristic as the primary causal factor in any relationship or outcome is not easy as relevant characteristics are linked in a complex network. Thereby, determining key characteristics of PESPs that drive relationships for the sake of sustainability is important. Through analyzing relationships between PESP characteristics, this study offers a series of suggestions to further aid the contributions of PESPs' contributions to sustainability in the future.
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