Selling forest environmental services : market-based mechanisms for conservation and development / edited by Stefano Pagiola, Joshua Bishop, and Natasha Landell-Mills.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pagiola, Stefano.

Bishop, Joshua.

Landell-Mills, Natasha.

Standardized Title:

Selling Forest Environmental Services (Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest conservation.

Forest management.

Forests and forestry--Environmental aspects.

Forests and forestry.

Physical Description:

xix, 299 pages : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The risks posed by forest destruction throughout the world are highly significant for all. Not only are forests a critical source of timber and non-timber forest products, but they provide environmental services that are the basis of life on Earth. However, only rarely do beneficiaries pay for the goods and services they experience, and there are servere consquences as a result for the poor and for the forests themselves.; It has proved difficult to translate the theory of market-based approaches into practice. Based on extensive research and case studies of biodiversity conservation, watershed protected and carbon sequestration, this book demonstrates how payment systems can be establised in practice, their effectiveness and their implications for the poor.

Contents:

1. Market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and development / Stefano Pagiola, Natasha Landell-Mills, and Joshua Bishop

2. Forest environmental services : an overview / Joshua Bishop and Natasha Landell-Mills

3. Paying for water services in Central America : learning from Costa Rica / Stefano Pagiola

4. Sharing the benefits of watershed management in Sukhomajri, India / John Kerr

5. Paying to protect watershed services : wetland banking in the United States / J Salzman and J B Ruhl

6. Financing watershed conservation : the FONAG water fund in Quito, Ecuador / Marta Echavarria

7. Selling biodiversity in a coffee cup : shade-grown coffee and conservation in Mesoamerica / Stefano Pagiola and Ina-Marlene Ruthenberg

8. Conserving land privately : spontaneous markets for land conservation in Chile / Elisa Corcuera, Claudia Seplveda, and Guillermo Geisse

9. Linking biodiversity prospecting and forest conservation / Sarah A Laird and Kerry ten Kate

10. Using fiscal instruments to encourage conservation : municipal responses to the 'ecological' value-added tax in Paran and Minas Gerais, Brazil / Peter H May. [et al.]

11. Developing a market for forest carbon in British Columbia / Gary Bull, Zoe Harkin, and Ann Wong

12. Helping indigenous farmers to participate in the international market for carbon services : the case of Scolel T / Richard Tipper

13. Investing in the environmental services of Australian forests / David Brand

14. Insuring forest sinks / Phil Cottle and Charles Crosthwaite-Eyre

15. Making market-based mechanisms work for forests and people / Stefano Pagiola, Natasha Landell-Mills, and Joshua Bishop.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-55755-5

1-4175-2252-6

600-00-0251-3

9786610475735

1-136-55756-3

1-280-47573-0

1-84977-250-9

9781849772501

OCLC:

647502004