Fresh Tracks In The Forest Assessing Incipient Payments For Environmental Services Initiatives In Bolivia

Author : Nina Robertson,Sven Wunder
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : 9789793361819

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Fresh Tracks in the Forest: Assessing Incipient Payments for Environmental Services Initiatives in Bolivia by Nina Robertson,Sven Wunder Pdf

Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are being considered worldwide with great interest and expectation. Proposals to create agreements in which beneficiaries of environmental services pay landowners directly for the provision or protection of these services are innovative and promising. But what real PES experiences are actually out there? This work assesses a range of PES or PES-type experiences in one country, Bolivia, in the fields of carbon sequestration, protection of watershed services, biodiversity and aesthetic landscape values. The report concludes that while none of the generally young initiatives adhere fully to the principle of PES as developed in the theoretical literature, many experiment with some of the relevant PES mechanisms. Protection of watersheds and landscape values are the most common types, though the implementing intermediaries often have underlying biodiversity-protection goals. Main obstacles to PES implementation include ideological resistance against the PES concept, the difficulty of building trust between buyers and sellers, and limited willingness to pay on behalf of service users. During their relatively short lifetime, basically all initiatives had been successful in making service sellers (PES recipients) better off in economic terms, while the effectiveness in achieving environmental objectives and securing positive social impacts so far remained more variable. In some cases, redesigning these initiatives to bring them closer to the full PES principles could also enable them to more effectively achieve positive environmental and livelihood outcomes.

Author : Thomas Greiber
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9782831711768

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Payments for Ecosystem Services by Thomas Greiber Pdf

Author : Li An,Conghe Song,Qi Zhang,Eve Bohnett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000689181

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Conservation Effectiveness and Concurrent Green Initiatives by Li An,Conghe Song,Qi Zhang,Eve Bohnett Pdf

The book examines concurrent green initiatives and their spillover effects on environmental conservation and management to reveal their impact on conservation effectiveness, drawing on a range of international case studies. Green initiatives are programs, payments, or endeavors that restore, sustain, or improve nature’s capacity, with examples including payments for ecosystem services and the development of nature reserves and protected areas. This book explicitly examines concurrent green initiatives, where initiatives overlap either geographically or in terms of recipients of multiple payments. The book provides a detailed analysis of case studies in the USA and China, including the USA-based Conservation Reserve Program and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, and the China based Grain-to-Green Program and the Forest Ecological Benefit Compensation Fund. Through this comparison, the book shows the impact of concurrent green initiatives, including additional or unintended benefits for conservation and local communities as well as negative spillover effects. The book complements these case studies by drawing on other global examples ranging in size from local to continental, including planting native trees and shrubs in Australia and green initiatives in the Baltic Sea region. Overall, this book demonstrates the importance of analyzing concurrent green efforts to better understand both the positive and negative impacts to ensure the optimal effectiveness of these policies and programs for conservation and environmental management. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental conservation and management, land use, ecosystem services and environmental policy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working on environmental initiatives and programs.

Author : Dilys Roe,Joanna Elliott,Chris Sandbrook,Matt Walpole
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118428511

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Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation by Dilys Roe,Joanna Elliott,Chris Sandbrook,Matt Walpole Pdf

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention. While they may seem to be unrelated, the international policy frameworks that guide action to address them make an explicit assumption that conserving biodiversity will help to tackle global poverty. Part of the Conservation Science and Practice Series published with the Zoological Society of London, this book explores the validity of that assumption. The book addresses a number of critical questions: Which aspects of biodiversity are of value to the poor? Does the relationship between biodiversity and poverty differ according to particular ecological conditions? How do different conservation interventions vary in their poverty impacts? How do distributional and institutional issues affect the poverty impacts of interventions? How do broader issues such as climate change and the global economic system affect the biodiversity – poverty relationship at different scales? This volume will be of interest to policy-makers, practitioners and researchers concerned with understanding the potential - and limitations - of integrated approaches to biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation.

Author : Pushpam Kumar,Ibrahim Thiaw
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781953693

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Values, Payments and Institutions for Ecosystem Management by Pushpam Kumar,Ibrahim Thiaw Pdf

With a strong policy focus, the contributors synthesise the scientific approaches to PES, valuation, trade-offs, equity and the institutional requirements to operationalize a credible concept of economic value. The book also addresses the behavioral fo

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251055505

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Better Forestry, Less Poverty by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This guide suggests ways to design and implement forest-based interventions that have the greatest potential to reduce poverty. Areas for action include timber production in both natural and planted forests, non-wood forest products, woodfuel, bushmeat, agroforestry and payment for environmental services. For each topic, the guide outlines key issues, summarizes successful case studies and identifies sources of additional information. The document highlights the importance of using participatory approaches and of tailoring activities to local circumstances. Emphasis is on making changes that will improve the livelihoods of people living in or near forests, and on helping users to gain a better understanding of the forms of rural poverty and of how decisions made at the local level affect segments of poor rural communities in different ways - women, children and the elderly being the most vulnerable. The guide will be of interest to forestry and rural development practitioners and the communities they serve, including district forestry officials, extension workers, local planners and administrators, and owners of small-scale enterprises and their employees.

Author : Shashi Kant,Janaki Alavalapati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136253287

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Handbook of Forest Resource Economics by Shashi Kant,Janaki Alavalapati Pdf

It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem services, such as being sinks for greenhouse gases, hotspots of biodiversity, tourism and recreation. They are also vitally important in preventing soil erosion and controlling water supplies, as well as providing non-timber forest products and supporting the livelihoods of many local people. This handbook provides a detailed, comprehensive and broad coverage of forest economics, including traditional forest economics of timber production, economics of environmental role of forests, and recent developments in forest economics. The chapters are grouped into six parts: fundamental topics in forest resource economics; economics of forest ecosystems; economics of forests, climate change, and bioenergy; economics of risk, uncertainty, and natural disturbances; economics of forest property rights and certification; and emerging issues and developments. Written by leading environmental, forest, and natural resource economists, the book represents a definitive reference volume for students of economics, environment, forestry and natural resource economics and management.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264181144

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OECD Green Growth Studies Putting Green Growth at the Heart of Development by OECD Pdf

This book presents evidence that green growth is the only way to sustain growth and development over the long-term.

Author : James Mayers
Publisher : IIED
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781843696872

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Water Ecosystem Services and Poverty Under Climate Change by James Mayers Pdf

Benefits to people from water ecosystems like rivers, swamps, floodplains and groundwater systems are central to human well-being. This report seeks to highlight some of the critical issues facing water ecosystem services in Africa, South Asia and Latin America and makes recommendations on the research that is needed to fill the gaps in knowledge.

Author : Nicola King,Russell Wise,Ivan Bond
Publisher : IIED
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Watershed management
ISBN : 9781843696513

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Fair Deals for Watershed Services in South Africa by Nicola King,Russell Wise,Ivan Bond Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9782831714271

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Governance of Ecosystems Services by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jessica Campese
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : 9789791412896

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Rights-based Approaches by Jessica Campese Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251057508

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The State of Food and Agriculture 2007 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

International food aid has rightly been credited with saving millions of lives and is often the only thing that stands between vulnerable people and death. However, it was a serious obstacle in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations and has been sharply criticised as a donor-driven response that creates dependency on the part of recipients and undermines local agricultural producers and traders upon whom sustainable food security depends. This issue of the 'State of Food and Agriculture' report examines the issues and controversies surrounding international food aid, particularly in crisis situations. It considers the ways in which food aid can support sustainable improvements in food security, in order to preserve its essential humanitarian role whilst minimising the possibility of harmful secondary impacts.

Author : Anthony Hall
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849806114

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Forests and Climate Change by Anthony Hall Pdf

Controlling deforestation, which is responsible for about one-fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, has become a major tool in the battle against global warming. An important new international initiative – Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) – provides economic incentives to forest users to encourage preservation of trees. Nearly all Latin American countries are introducing national REDD strategies and pilot schemes. This insightful book raises questions over some of the basic assumptions that underpin REDD policies in Latin America. It raises doubts about whether sufficient account is being taken of the complex social, economic, cultural and governance dimensions involved, advocating a comprehensive 'social development' approach to REDD planning. Forests and Climate Change is the first book to comprehensively examine REDD policies across Latin America, including a focus on social aspects. It will prove invaluable for academics and postgraduate students in the fields of environmental studies, environmental politics, geography, social planning, social and environmental impact assessment, development studies, and Latin American area studies. Policy-makers, planners and practitioners working on REDD at national and international levels (both official and NGO sectors) will also find plenty of refreshing data in this much-needed resource.

Author : Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Ravi Prabhu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000844627

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Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management by Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Ravi Prabhu Pdf

Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experience with Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), assessing both its uses and improvements needed to address global environmental issues. The volume argues that the activation and the empowerment of local peoples are critical to addressing current environmental challenges and that this must be enhanced by linking and extending such stewardship to global and national policymakers and actors on a broader scale. This can be achieved by employing ACM’s participatory approach, characterized by conscious efforts among stakeholders to communicate, collaborate, negotiate and seek out opportunities to learn collectively about the impacts of their action. The case studies presented here reflect decades of experience working with forest communities in three Indonesian Islands and four African countries. Researchers and practitioners who participated in CIFOR’s early ACM work had the rare opportunity to return to their research sites decades later to see what has happened. These authors reflect critically on their own experience and local site conditions to glean insights that guide us in more effectively addressing climate change and other forest-related challenges. They showcase how global and regional actors will have to work more closely with smallholders, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, recognizing the key local roles in forest stewardship. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of conservation, forest management, community development, natural resource management and development studies more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.