CID at Harvard University :: Research on Sustainable Development Seminar :: Payments for Environmental Services: A Pathway Out of Poverty? with Katherine Warner

Research on Sustainable Development Seminar

"Payments for Environmental Services: A Pathway Out of Poverty?"

Speaker: Katherine Warner, Managing Director for Forestry and Natural Resource Management, Winrock International

Hosted by Professor William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG
Co-sponsored by the Science Environment and Development Group, and the Center for International Development

Wednesday, 14 December 2005
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG

Biography:

Dr. Katherine Warner is an ecological anthropologist whose work has focused on natural resource management with an emphasis on community based or local management. Her current interests include Payments for Environmental Services (PES), an innovative mechanism that links environmental sustainability and poverty and alleviation. She was the lead author of a feasibility study of Financial Incentives to Communities for Stewardship of Environmental Resources which focused on payments from hydropower utilities to upland communities in Asia. In 2005 Dr. Warner coordinated the design of a new program funded by USAID in the Greater Mekong, the Regional Biodiversity Conservation Program, in which one of the components will develop and implement a PES program in Vietnam. She also serves on the Steering Committee of the Rewarding the Upland Poor for Environmental Services program, an initiative funded by IFAD and implemented by ICRAF in Southeast Asia. With over twenty-five years of experience in natural resource management and related areas, she has resided and worked in Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Kenya, Sierra Leone, United States and Nigeria, with additional professional working experience in China, Russia and Tanzania. Prior to joining Winrock International in Washington, D.C. as Managing Director of Forestry and Natural Resources Management in 2001, she was head of community forestry at FAO where she led the Forests, Trees and People Programme and developed initiatives such as the multisectoral Livelihoods Support Program. Dr. Warner currently coordinates a global program with projects in Central America, Russia, East and West Africa, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and China.

Background Document:

Warner, Katherine, Marjorie Huang, and Darlene Middleton. 2004. "Financial Incentives to Communities for Stewardship of Environmental Resources." Feasibility Study. Arlington, VA: Winrock International and USAID.

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