Selling forest environmental services : market-based mechanisms for conservation and development /

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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 g...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pagiola, Stefano, Bishop, Joshua, Landell-Mills, Natasha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2002.
Subjects:
Forest conservation.
Forest management.
Forests and forestry > Environmental aspects.
Forêts > Conservation.
Forêts > Gestion.
Sylviculture > Aspect de l'environnement.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Forest conservation
Forest management
Forests and forestry > Environmental aspects
Aufsatzsammlung
Dienstleistung
Forstwirtschaft
Nachhaltigkeit
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and development / Stefano Pagiola, Natasha Landell-Mills, and Joshua Bishop
  • Forest environmental services : an overview / Joshua Bishop and Natasha Landell-Mills
  • Paying for water services in Central America : learning from Costa Rica / Stefano Pagiola
  • Sharing the benefits of watershed management in Sukhomajri, India / John Kerr
  • Paying to protect watershed services : wetland banking in the United States / J Salzman and JB Ruhl
  • Financing watershed conservation : the FONAG water fund in Quito, Ecuador / Marta Echavarria
  • Selling biodiversity in a coffee cup : shade-grown coffee and conservation in Mesoamerica / Stefano Pagiola and Ina-Marlene Ruthenberg
  • Conserving land privately : spontaneous markets for land conservation in Chile / Elisa Corcuera, Claudia Sepúlveda, and Guillermo Geisse
  • Linking biodiversity prospecting and forest conservation / Sarah A. Laird and Kerry ten Kate
  • Using fiscal instruments to encourage conservation : municipal responses to the 'ecological' value-added tax in Paraná and Minas Gerais, Brazil / Peter H May [and others]
  • Developing a market for forest carbon in British Columbia / Gary Bull, Zoe Harkin, and Ann Wong
  • Helping indigenous farmers to participate in the international market for carbon services : the case of Scolel Té / Richard Tipper
  • Investing in the environmental services of Australian forests / David Brand
  • Insuring forest sinks / Phil Cottle and Charles Crosthwaite-Eyre
  • Making market-based mechanisms work for forests and people / Stefano Pagiola, Natasha Landell-Mills, and Joshua Bishop.

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