Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pagiola, Stefano.
• Bishop, Joshua.
• Landell-Mills, Natasha.

Description

xix, 299 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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 severe 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. [from publisher's advertisement].

Subject

• Forest conservation
• Forest management
• Forests and forestry > Environmental aspects
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Dienstleistung
• Forstwirtschaft
• Nachhaltigkeit

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and development / Stefano Pagiola, Natasha Landell-Mills, and Joshua Bishop -- Forest environmental services : an overview / Joshua Bishop and Natasha Landell-Mills -- Paying for water services in Central America : learning from Costa Rica / Stefano Pagiola -- Sharing the benefits of watershed management in Sukhomajri, India / John Kerr -- Paying to protect watershed services : wetland banking in the United States / J Salzman and JB Ruhl -- Financing watershed conservation : the FONAG water fund in Quito, Ecuador / Marta Echavarria --Selling biodiversity in a coffee cup : shade-grown coffee and conservation in Mesoamerica / Stefano Pagiola and Ina-Marlene Ruthenberg -- Conserving land privately : spontaneous markets for land conservation in Chile / Elisa Corcuera, Claudia Sepúlveda, and Guillermo Geisse -- Linking biodiversity prospecting and forest conservation / Sarah A. Laird and Kerry ten Kate -- Using fiscal instruments to encourage conservation : municipal responses to the 'ecological' value-added tax in Paraná and Minas Gerais, Brazil / Peter H May ... [et al.] -- Developing a market for forest carbon in British Columbia / Gary Bull, Zoe Harkin, and Ann Wong -- Helping indigenous farmers to participate in the international market for carbon services : the case of Scolel Té / Richard Tipper -- Investing in the environmental services of Australian forests / David Brand -- Insuring forest sinks / Phil Cottle and Charles Crosthwaite-Eyre -- Making market-based mechanisms work for forests and people / Stefano Pagiola, Natasha Landell-Mills, and Joshua Bishop.

ISBN

• 1853838896
• 9781853838897
• 1853838888
• 9781853838880

LCCN

2002009275

OCLC

• ocm50004762
• 50004762
• SCSB-1352520

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library