Selling Forest Environmental Services

by Pagiola, Stefano; Bishop, Joshua; Landell-Mills, Natasha

• ISBN13: 9781853838897
• ISBN10: 1853838896
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Forest destruction throughout the world poses significant risks. Not only are forests a source of valuable timber and non-timber products, but they also provide important environmental services that help sustain life on Earth. However, only rarely do beneficiaries pay for the services they receive, resulting in low incentives to conserve forests, and limiting opportunities for rural development. Market-based approaches are thought to offer considerable promise as a means to promote forest conservation, and as a new source of income for rural communities. However, it has proven difficult to translate the theory into practice. Based on extensive research and case studies of markets for biodiversity conservation, watershed protection and carbon sequestration, this book demonstrates how payment systems can be established in practice, their effectiveness and their implications for the poor. This state-of-the-art review of emerging markets for forest environmental services will be vital for decision-makers and professionals as well as for researchers, teachers and students of environmental economics and forestry.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes	vii
Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
List of Contributors	xiii
Acronyms and Abbreviations	xv
Market-based Mechanisms for Forest Conservation and Development	1	(14)
Stefano Pagiola
Natasha Landell-Mills
Joshua Bishop
Forest Environmental Services: An Overview	15	(22)
Joshua Bishop
Natasha Landell-Mills
Paying for Water Services in Central America: Learning from Costa Rica	37	(26)
Stefano Pagiola
Sharing the Benefits of Watershed Management in Sukhomajri, India	63	(14)
John Kerr
Paying to Protect Watershed Services: Wetland Banking in the United States	77	(14)
J Salzman
J B Ruhl
Financing Watershed Conservation: The FONAG Water Fund in Quito, Ecuador	91	(12)
Marta Echavarria
Selling Biodiversity in a Coffee Cup: Shade-grown Coffee and Conservation in Mesoamerica	103	(24)
Stefano Pagiola
Ina-Marlene Ruthenberg
Conserving Land Privately: Spontaneous Markets for Land Conservation in Chile	127	(24)
Elisa Corcuera
Claudia Sepulveda
Guillermo Geisse
Linking Biodiversity Prospecting and Forest Conservation	151	(22)
Sarah A Laird
Kerry ten Kate
Using Fiscal Instruments to Encourage Conservation: Municipal Responses to the `Ecological Value-added Tax in Parana and Minas Gerais, Brazil	173	(28)
Peter H May
Fernando Veiga Neto
Valdir Denardin
Wilson Loureiro
Developing a Market for Forest Carbon in British Columbia	201	(22)
Gary Bull
Zoe Harkin
Ann Wong
Helping Indigenous Farmers to Participate in the International Market for Carbon Services: The Case of Scolel Te	223	(12)
Richard Tipper
Investing in the Environmental Services of Australian Forests	235	(12)
David Brand
Insuring Forest Sinks	247	(14)
Phil Cottle
Charles Crosthwaite-Eyre
Making Market-based Mechanisms Work for Forests and People	261	(30)
Stefano Pagiola
Natasha Landell-Mills
Joshua Bishop
Index	291