Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes
Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Author: Leslie Lipper

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-03-21

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0387729712

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In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental and poverty alleviation objectives. However, their optimal design, implications for the rural poor, and how these initiatives integrate into international treaties on global warming and biodiversity loss are still being discussed. This book addresses these issues by scrutinizing analytical tools, providing policy insights and stimulating debate on linkages between poverty alleviation and environmental protection. In particular, it turns attention towards the role of environmental services in agricultural landscapes as they provide a living for many poor in developing countries. It serves as a valuable reference for academics and students in various disciplines, as well as for policy makers and advisors. This book is a co-publication between Springer and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes
Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Author: Leslie Lipper

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Incorporated

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780387773544

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In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental and poverty alleviation objectives. However, their optimal design, implications for the rural poor, and how these initiatives integrate into international treaties on global warming and biodiversity loss are still being discussed. This book addresses these issues by examining analytical tools, providing policy insights and stimulating debate on linkages between poverty alleviation and environmental protection. In particular, it turns attention towards the role of environmental services in agricultural landscapes as they provide a living for many poor in developing countries.--Publisher's description.

Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes
Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Author: Leslie Lipper

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9789251057674

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In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental and poverty alleviation objectives. However, their optimal design, implications for the rural poor, and how these initiatives integrate into international treaties on global warming and biodiversity loss are still being discussed. This book addresses these issues by examining analytical tools, providing policy insights and stimulating debate on linkages between poverty alleviation and environmental protection. In particular, it turns attention towards the role of environmental services in agricultural landscapes as they provide a living for many poor in developing countries.--Publisher's description.

Ecosystem Services from Agriculture and Agroforestry
Ecosystem Services from Agriculture and Agroforestry

Author: Bruno Rapidel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-06-25

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1136537619

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Agricultural systems are no longer evaluated solely on the basis of the food they provide, but also on their capacity to limit impacts on the environment, such as soil conservation, water quality and biodiversity conservation, as well as their contribution to mitigating and adapting to climate change. In order to cope with these multiple service functions, they must internalize the costs and benefits of their environmental impact. Payments for ecosystem services are hoped to encourage and promote sustainable practices via financial incentives. The authors show that while the principle is straightforward, the practice is much more complicated. Whereas scenic beauty and protection of water sources provide benefits to the local population, carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation can be considered international public goods, rendering potential payment schemes more complex. Few examples exist where national or international bodies have been able to set up viable mechanisms that compensate agricultural systems for the environmental services they provide. However this book provides several examples of successful programs, and aims to transfer them to other regions of the world. The authors show that a product can be sold if it is clearly quantified, there exists a means to determine the service's values, and there is a willing buyer. The first two sections of the book present methodological issues related to the quantification and marketing of ecosystem services from agriculture, including agroforestry. The third and final section presents case studies of practical payments for ecosystem services and experiences in Central and South America, and draws some lessons learnt for effective and sustainable development of ecosystem services compensation mechanisms.

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)

Author: Emily Fripp

Publisher: CIFOR

Published: 2014-12-09

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 6021504577

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One of the aims of the CoLUPSIA project is to explore options for establishing payments for ecosystem services (PES) within the two districts where the project is working: Seram and Kapuas Hulu. These guidelines were prepared to support the CoLUPSIA team in completing this assessment and have since been revised to incorporate some findings from the field assessments.

Selling Forest Environmental Services
Selling Forest Environmental Services

Author: Joshua Bishop

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2012-04-27

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1136557555

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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 consequences 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 established in practice, their effectiveness and their implications for the poor.

How to Organize a Program of Payments for Water-related Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes ?
How to Organize a Program of Payments for Water-related Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes ?

Author: Julia Rérolle

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13:

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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) have attracted international interest, to protect the supply of services from an ecosystem. The main obstacles identified in literature when creating a transaction for Ecosystem Services (ES) preservation are i) identifying the environmental problem and the main drivers of ES provisioning, ii) overcoming legal administration barrier to design the appropriate scheme, iii) estimating the value of the ES focused, iv) convincing local ES providers to change behaviors, v) finding financial and technical support, which may depend upon a large panel of partners, vi) ensuring adequate monitoring procedures for PES transaction. This paper analyses the success of a pioneering Brazilian PES water-related scheme in Extrema, a city of 25,000 inhabitants in southeast Brazil, about 100 km from São Paulo. Using an institutional analysis approach through literature review completed with interviews, this case gives an overview of the strategy adopted by the municipality of Extrema to overcome challenges to protect watershed basin in private properties through a PES scheme. The analysis of this PES case tends to portray important aspects in all the three following steps: the PES conceptualization, the project implantation and the mechanism consolidation. The efficiency of PES depended on program design based on legal framework mainly driven by the municipal Environmental Department. They first have been confronted to population resistance to enter in the project. The next challenge was the development of effective implementation system established thanks to financial, technical and material support of several stakeholders (Federal, State, Private, NGO). We raised the issue of the concentration power in one actor for the decision-making process, but it was compensated by its deep involvement at the adapted local scale. To allow a sustainable PES project, one should try to connect environmental and social concerns. Considering both social context and impacts of such a project and including rural population should be necessary.