2026 Sven Wunder: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	79	399	339	6	6	231	34063
Environmental Sciences	77	1107	1050	29	29	235	33671

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Sven Wunder is affiliated with the European Forest Institute in Spain. Their research primarily intersects environmental science and economics, with a strong focus on forest conservation and resource management.

The scientist's recent significant papers include:

Payments for Environmental Services: Past Performance and Pending Potentials, 2020, Annual Review of Resource Economics
Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation, 2023, Science
The Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Policies and Programs, 2020, Annual Review of Resource Economics
Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options, 2022, Forest Policy and Economics
Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors include:

Jan Börner
Georg Winkel
Bo Jellesmark Thorsen
Marko Lovrić
Thomas Lundhede

Common publication venues for their work are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Forest Policy and Economics
Environmental Science & Policy
Annual Review of Resource Economics

Sven Wunder has contributed to book publications with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) eBooks, including titles such as "Que se passe-t-il après l'arrêt des paiements de conservation? Principales conclusions de la REDD+ au Brésil" and "O que acontece depois que os pagamentos para a conservação são encerrados? Resultados sobre REDD+ no Brasil" both published in 2023.

The scientist's main fields of study encompass:

Environmental Science
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

The subfields relevant to their research are:

Global and Planetary Change
Economics and Econometrics
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Sociology and Political Science

Key topics of their work include:

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Forest Management and Policy
Environmental Conservation and Management
Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
Climate Change Policy and Economics
Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Best Publications

Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues

Stefanie Engel;Stefano Pagiola;Sven Wunder

3298
Citations
Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts

Sven Wunder

2877
Citations
Taking stock: A comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries

Sven Wunder;Stefanie Engel;Stefano Pagiola

1694
Citations
Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview

William D. Sunderlin;A. Angelsen;B. Belcher;P. Burgess

1448
Citations
The Efficiency of Payments for Environmental Services in Tropical Conservation

Sven Wunder

1354
Citations
Environmental income and rural livelihoods: a global-comparative analysis.

Arild Angelsen;Pamela Jagger;Ronnie Babigumira;Brian Belcher

1276
Citations
Poverty Alleviation and Tropical Forests—What Scope for Synergies?

Sven Wunder

944
Citations
Show Me the Money: Do Payments Supply Environmental Services in Developing Countries?

Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Sven Wunder;Paul J. Ferraro

907
Citations
Revisiting the concept of payments for environmental services

Sven Wunder

881
Citations
Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation

Georg Kindermann;Michael Obersteiner;Brent Sohngen;Jayant Sathaye

776
Citations
Exploring the forest–poverty link: key concepts, issues and research implications

A. Angelsen;Sven Wunder

734
Citations
How can market mechanisms for forest environmental services help the poor?: preliminary Lessons from Latin America

Maryanne Grieg-Gran;Ina Porras;Sven Wunder

730
Citations
Ecotourism and economic incentives: an empirical approach.

Sven Wunder

661
Citations
Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidence

Sven Wunder

622
Citations
Spatial targeting of payments for environmental services: A tool for boosting conservation benefits

Tobias Wünscher;Stefanie Engel;Sven Wunder

604
Citations
The effectiveness of payments for environmental services

Jan Börner;Kathy Baylis;Esteve Corbera;Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

526
Citations
Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions

Eric F. Lambin;Eric F. Lambin;Patrick Meyfroidt;Ximena Rueda;Ximena Rueda;Allen Blackman

514
Citations
Decentralized payments for environmental services: The cases of Pimampiro and PROFAFOR in Ecuador

Sven Wunder;Montserrat Albán

511
Citations
Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

Kathy Baylis;Jordi Honey-Rosés;Jan Börner;Esteve Corbera

467
Citations
Selling two environmental services: In-kind payments for bird habitat and watershed protection in Los Negros, Bolivia

Nigel M. Asquith;Maria Teresa Vargas;Sven Wunder

452
Citations
Payments for environmental services in theory and practice: an overview of the issues

S. Engel;S. Pagiola;Sven Wunder

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Börner University of Bonn

Arild Angelsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Stefanie Engel Osnabrück University

William D. Sunderlin Center for International Forestry Research

Clive W. J. Granger University of California, San Diego

Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research

Paul J. Ferraro Johns Hopkins University

Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University

Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research

Maria Brockhaus University of Helsinki

External Links

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