Payment for Ecosystem Services
Published on 26. February 2009
Book
Hardback
324 pages
978-0-19-569874-9 (ISBN)
Description
The management of environmental services is an urgent requirement given the declining natural ecosystems worldwide. Transaction between provider and beneficiaries of ecosystem services known as payment for ecosystem services (PES) has emerged as one of the innovative and cost effective responses to management of ecosystem and ecosystem services. Payments have been successfully designed and executed for carbon, watershed services, genetic material, and various other nutrients. More than 30 leading experts in the field of ecological economics address a large range of issues dealing with the valuation of ecosystem services, as well as the design and performance of compensation schemes as effective tools that may considerably reduce the cost of such management. The contributors also propose PES as a redistributive mechanism between different social groups that is framed in the context of inequality concerns in rural-urban dynamics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables and figures
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-569874-9 (9780195698749)
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Persons
Pushpam Kumar is Environmental Economist, Institute For Sustainable Water, Integrated Management, and Ecosystem Research, University of Liverpool; Roldan Muradian is Senior Research Fellow, Development Research Institute Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Content
Foreword; Chapter 1. Payment for Ecosystem Services and Valuation: Challenges and Research Gaps; Chapter 2. Equity Considerations and Payments for Ecosystem Services; Chapter 3. Payment for Environmental Services and Poverty Alleviation: The Case for Weak Property Rights and Commercial Interests; Chapter 4. An Institutional Analysis of Negotitation Support System for Watershed Environmental Service: A Case Study of Bhoj Wetlands, Madhya Pradesh, India; Chapter 5. Incentives that Work for farmers and Wetlands; Chapter 6. Measuring Economic Value of Crop Poliination Service: An Empirical Application of Contingent Valuation in Kakamega, Western Kenya; Chapter 7. A Pilot Study on Payment for Ecological and Environmental Services in Lashihai Nature Reserve, China; Chapter 8. Encouraging Revegetation in Australia with a Groundwater Recharge Credit Scheme; Chapter 9. Marketing Ecosystem Services; Chapter 10. Valuing Coastal Water Quality for Beach Recreation on the Caribbean Island of Tobago; Chapter 11. Analysis of farmers' Willingness to pay for Agro biodiversity Conservation in Nepal; Chapter 12. A Travel Cost Analysis of Non-market Benefits of Forest Recreation in Great Britain; Chapter 13. Tourism, Local Livelihood, and Conservation: A Case Study in Indian Sunderbans.