Critical Analysis of Payments for Ecosystem Services: Case Studies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
Yunlong Gong
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Reviewer 2 Report
The paper needs further research to assess ways of evaluating PES from the literature.
A better description of the methods used and survey information, including questionnaire questions, is needed. Also the number of responses is very low for a quantitative assessment, which is a serious shortcoming.
The theoretical background on PES criteria is not sufficiently used to obtain results on PES schemes. The division of actors, for example, is not clear in terms of private and public when it comes to Funds ...
Conclusions derived from the findings described are not sufficiently supported by research or facts.
I recommend to describe better researched case studies, and to complement the survey among actors. while using the theoretical background of PES criteria and actors roles described e.g. by , S. Wunder
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The section 3.4 and table 3.3 is a bit weird as it does not have any relationship with previouse context. In my original review report, I just required the authors to provide some complementary information to support their judgement of "success". For example, what's the expected aims of a specific PES programm? what are the current situations and to what extent the aims have been reached? what's the unexpected results? such information can be present in the supplementary materials.
Author Response
Thank you for the comment.
Indeed, that section and the table were out of place, so we removed them. We have added an additional table in the supplementary materials showing the aims of PES schemes, the extent to which the aims have been achieved and the unexpected results.
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