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Payments for Ecosystem Services as Incentives for Collective Action
Society and Natural Resources, 2013The design and thriving of payments for ecosystem services (PES) have occurred as a response to the relative failure of integrated strategies for reconciling conservation and development. The most widespread definition of PES conceives these payments as markets to solve environmental externalities. This article analyzes the limitations of this “Coasean”
Roldan Muradian
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Value of ecosystem hydropower service and its impact on the payment for ecosystem services
Science of The Total Environment, 2014Hydropower is an important service provided by ecosystems. We surveyed all the hydropower plants in the Zagunao River Basin, Southwest China. Then, we assessed the hydropower service by using the InVEST (The Integrated Value and Tradeoff of Ecosystem Service Tools) model. Finally, we discussed the impact on ecological compensation.
B, Fu, Y K, Wang, P, Xu, K, Yan, M, Li
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A zoological perspective on payments for ecosystem services
Integrative Zoology, 2007AbstractThe concept of payments for ecosystem services is being developed as an important means of providing a more diverse flow of benefits to people living in and around habitats valuable for conservation. The Kyoto Protocol, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, includes a Clean Development Mechanism to provide for ...
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Ecosystem Services, 2015
This study examines the risks and returns associated with payments for ecosystem services (PES) for private forestland using modern portfolio theory. PES schemes for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation were considered. Pricing data for European carbon emissions offsets and the Finnish biodiversity conservation scheme 'Trading in ...
Matthies, Brent D. +5 more
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This study examines the risks and returns associated with payments for ecosystem services (PES) for private forestland using modern portfolio theory. PES schemes for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation were considered. Pricing data for European carbon emissions offsets and the Finnish biodiversity conservation scheme 'Trading in ...
Matthies, Brent D. +5 more
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Payments for ecosystem services: justified or not? A political view
Environmental Science & Policy, 2010Abstract In a context of continued environmental degradation of agricultural landscapes, the concept of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) has been attracting growing attention in both academic and policy circles. The main premise of this conservation approach is appealing: land users, who tend to be poorly, if at all, motivated to protect nature ...
Van Hecken, Gert, Bastiaensen, Johan
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Payments for Ecosystem Services
2017Payments for ecosystem services come in several different conservation financing instruments such as biodiversity offsets, species banking, watershed protection payments, mitigation banking, and forest carbon markets, particularly Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+).
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An Overview of Payments for Ecosystem Services
2011In the twenty-first century, we are challenged to dramatically transform the way we view, value, and manage our planet’s ecosystems. Healthy ecosystems have long been understood to produce ‘goods,’ such as food and fiber, that have a market value within the prevailing economic paradigm; however, the ‘services’ of these ecosystems have either been ...
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Are payments for ecosystem services benefiting ecosystems and people?
2017This chapter examines the evidence surrounding whether payments for ecosystem services (PES) have delivered the anticipated benefits for people and nature. Proponents claim PES are scalable and clearly link conservation investments to conservation objectives.
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Conservation Through Payment for Ecosystem Services
2016Water birds are considered as an important bioindicator for the ecological conditions and health of wetland ecosystems. The number of heronries is declining in Kerala due to habitat loss, land-use change, hunting for meat, poisoning by pesticides, felling of nesting trees, etc.
K. P. Laladhas +3 more
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