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The creation of markets for ecosystem services in the United States :! the challenge of trading places /! Mattijs van Maasakkers.
The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enthusi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Anthem Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Anthem ecosystem services and restoration ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introducing Ecosystems to the Marketplace; 1.a The Promise(s) of Markets for Ecosystem Services; The basic elements; Environmental markets and payments for ecosystem services; Early success and emerging challenges; 1.b Why Are Markets for Ecosystem Services so Difficult to Create?; Failure to launch; Economics and policy; 1.c How to Study Markets for Ecosystem Services; Practical methods; People and markets.
- The Ohio River, the Chesapeake Bay and the Willamette River1.d Chapter Overview; Notes; Chapter 2 Creating Places for Markets; 2.a Places versus Markets; A sense of place; The market in environmental policy; Efficiency, innovation and private participation; 2.b Ecological Outsourcing in Oregon; From the Tualatin to a marketplace; Localized resistance; 2.c Moving Matter out of Place in Pennsylvania; The first market in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; Poultry manure and the boundaries of trading; 2.d Markets as Displacements; Notes; Chapter 3 Producing Equivalence.
- 3.a How to Measure Ecosystem Services for MarketsThe role of equivalence; Science, markets and the law; 3.b Pipes versus Fields in the Ohio River Basin; A business case; Challenging currencies; The Steam Electric Category and the limits of equivalence; 3.c No Two Wetlands Are the Same; Searching for equivalence in wetland mitigation banking; Quantification and simplification: The ORWAP spreadsheet; A fluttering market; 3.d Markets and Nonequivalence; Notes; Chapter 4 Developing Participation; 4.a Selection, Interaction and Authority; Who is invited?; How do participants interact?
- What kind(s) of authority do participants have?4.b Nutrient Net and an Effort to Create Trading at the Bay Scale; Participation and communication to what end?; Questionable authority in the Chesapeake Bay; 4.c EPRI and the Role of Soil and Water Conservation Districts; Dealing with resistance; Committing state regulators; 4.d Seeking Consensus in Oregon; Counting on support; Communicating across boundaries; 4.e Markets without Participants; Notes; Chapter 5 Trading Places; 5.a From Displacement to Spatializing Interests; 5.b From Nonequivalence to Improving Places.
- 5.c From Opposition to Building Consensus5.d Conclusion; Notes; List of Interviews; Bibliography; Index.