Subject area：Society& Market：Private Agency for Development
Essay Questions:
The Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) approach is designed to use market-based arrangements to achieve sustainable improvement in environmental conditions. Using a relevant case study(Sloping Land Conversion Program in China), critically explore the degree to which the PES approach is able to succeed in that objective. In your response, pay particular attention to the degree of state involvement you consider to be necessary to promote long-term success.
Additional information: The essay should essentially examine PES as a larger framework of environmental conservation policy through a self-sustaining payment system. The main purpose of PES being environmental conservation, the issue of poverty should be treated as a side topic. Cite at least 15 Academic references with Harvard.