Buying and Selling the Environment. How to Design and Implement a PES Scheme

Authors

Gabriela Scheufele Visiting Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Acton, Australia. Dr Gabriela Scheufele is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Her current research is focused on designing and implementing a payments for environmental services (PES) scheme in Lao PDR. Her research interests include non-market valuation, conservation auctions, market-based instruments in environmental and natural resource management, and incorporating environmental and natural resource economics research into policy development. Jeff Bennett Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Acton, Australia. Prof Jeff Bennett is Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is an international recognised environmental and resource economist who specialises in the analysis of the private sector in protecting the environment and the estimation of non-market benefits and costs.