Paying for Biodiversity [electronic resource] : Enhancing the Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2010.
Biodiversity and ecosystem services provide tangible benefits for society, such as food provisioning, water purification, genetic resources or climate regulation. These services provide critical life support functions and contribute to human health, well being and economic growth. Yet biodiversity is declining worldwide and, in some areas, this loss is accelerating. The need for policies that promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services is more important than ever.  . Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) is a direct and flexible incentive-based mechanism
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Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Acronyms and abbreviations; Executive summary; Introduction; Part I Designing and implementing effective payments for ecosystem services programmes; Chapter 1 The economics of payments for ecosystem services; Chapter 2 Environmentally effective payments fo recosystem services; Chapter 3 Cost-effective targeting of payments for ecosystem services; Chapter 4 Mobilising finance for payments for ecosystem services; Chapter 5 Insights for international payments for ecosystem services; Part II Payments for ecosystem services programmes case studies
Chapter 6 United States: The USDA Conservation Reserve ProgrammeChapter 7 Australia: The Tasmanian Forest Conservation Fund; Chapter 8 Indonesia: A pilot PES auction in the Sumberjaya watershed; Chapter 9 Conclusions; Annex A Case study overview
Biodiversity and ecosystem services provide tangible benefits for society, such as food provisioning, water purification, genetic resources or climate regulation. These services provide critical life support functions and contribute to human health, well being and economic growth. Yet biodiversity is declining worldwide and, in some areas, this loss is accelerating. The need for policies that promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services is more important than ever.  . Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) is a direct and flexible incentive-based mechanism
Conservation of natural resources -- Economic aspects.
Ecosystem management.
Environmental economics.