摘要：Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have received much praise and are increasingly perceived as a promisingtool to ensure the protection of global ecosystems as well as being able to help alleviate poverty in areas rich in ecosystemservices. Given current trends, the scale of payments is likely to grow, creating new circumstances within which ecosystemservices will be managed. In this dynamic context, following a precautionary approach, one should focus on establishing systemsto handle the risks involved. Based on an analogy to resources that have long been included in the system of market transactions,we suggest that the rapid development of PES can negatively influence regional and potentially national economies. Resourcerevenues are highly correlated with economic problems in poor countries that are not able to use those revenues to ensure sounddevelopment. Problems similar to those that affect resource-rich countries may emerge in the case of economies rich in ecosystemservices once PES increase in spatial and monetary scale. The most prominent examples of such problems include rent seeking,unequal bargaining power of buyers and sellers, volatility of payments, which are all related to the quality of institutions. Toensure the long-term positive impacts of PES, such systems should be carefully designed paying particular attention to distributionof property rights and transparency, decentralization of revenues, and capacity building to ensure further developmentopportunities
关键词：aid curse; ecosystem services; global PES; payments for ecosystem services; PES; resource curse
