Conservation Effectiveness and Concurrent Green Initiatives

"This outstanding book on Green Initiatives will be of enormous interest to researchers and practitioners, teachers and learners alike. Its brilliant and nuanced treatment of diverse green interventions, and their form, scope, and effectiveness will be a model for any future work on the subject."

Arun Agrawal, Professor at University of Michigan and Member of National Academy of Sciences in the US

"Analyzing different conservation incentive programs under the umbrella of "green initiatives", this innovative book directs us towards a topic urgently needing scientific rigor: evaluating policy mixes. How to assess spillover interactions when our featured policy intervention is not the only game in town? Which usually it isn't... Using the US and China as examples and zooming in on particular regions and green policies, the authors convincingly show that some programs implemented in parallel exhibit synergies, yet others tradeoffs: careful empirical analysis is needed to assess which policy mixes have desirable effects. This book shows how we can get started!"

Sven Wunder, Principal Scientist at European Forest Institute (EFI) in Spain and world-class scholar on payments for environmental services

"The consequences of PES, IPBES, and other conservation and green initiatives worldwide require detailed attention to the land dynamics generated. This work provides a foundation for such assessments, identifying important but under-addressed dimensions of these initiatives important for conservation, biodiversity, land systems, agricultural, and food sciences, among other fields of research and practice."

B.L. Turner II, Professor at Arizona State University and Member of National Academy of Sciences in the US