Global biodiversity finance
Subtitle: the case for international payments for ecosystem services
By: edited by Joshua Bishop, WWF-Australia, Chloe Hill, Independent Consiltant, UK/Switzerland
Contributors: International Union for Conservation of Nature; United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781782546948
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity conservation; Finance; Economic aspects; Biodiversität; Finanzierung; Umweltpolitik
Notes: Published in association with IUCN and UNEP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction to international payments for ecosystem services / Joshua Bishop, Dustin Miller, Nicolas Bertrand, Fulai Sheng and David Huberman; title: 2. Ecosystems, economics and payment for ecosystem services / Joshua Bishop and David Huberman; title: 3. The two sides of IPES transactions: exploring the motivations for demand and supply / Wendy Proctor and Sissel Waage, with contributions from Markus Lehmann, Joshua Bishop, Beto Borges, Thomas Koellner and Anna Lukasiewizc; title: 4. Household demand for international ecosystem services: a Swiss case study / Andrea Baranzini, Anne-Kathrin Faust and David Huberman; title: 5. Cost-effective targeting for IPES / Tobias Wünscher and Stefanie Engel, with contributions from Katia Karousakis; title: 6. IPES supply-side case study: the Surui Carbon Project in Brazil / Steve Zwick, with contributions from Phil Covell, Beto Borges and Jacob Olander; title: 7. Matching international demand for and supply of ecosystem services / Francis Vorhies, Joshua Bishop, and Chloe Hill; title: 8. Matching supply and demand in IPES: the case of the GreenPalm Initiative / Louise A. Gallagher, Bob Norman and Robert T. Zuelke; title: 9. Conclusions: towards international payments for ecosystem services / Markus Lehmann.