Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services

Founded on the core notion that we have reached a turning point in the governance, and thus the conservation, of ecosystems and the environment, this edited volume features more than 20 original chapters, each informed by the paradigm shift in the sector over the last decade. Where once the emphasis was on strategies for conservation, enacted through instruments of control such as planning and 'polluter pays' legislation, more recent developments have shown a shift towards incentive-based arrangements aimed at those responsible for providing the environmental services enabled by such ecosystems. Encouraging shared responsibility for watershed management, developed in Costa Rica, is a prime example, and the various interests involved in its instauration in Java are one of the subjects examined here.

Other topics including the interplay between property rights and bioprospecting (a live issue in places where but a small proportion of the insect and plant life has been identified). Other issues explored include the management of marine protected areas, and the controversial issue of payment for ecosystem services. Offering a comprehensive and worldwide perspective on the burgeoning research being devoted to the topic, the authors show how former divisions and dichotomies between state and market, regulation and incentive, or conservation and development, are being broken down by a growing and urgent sense that solutions must be decentralized, more flexible, and more on polycentric institutional arrangements.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services.- PART I: Keywords and Concepts.- 2. Managing Tropical Forest Ecosystem Services: An Overview of Options.- 3. Partnerships in Global Governance: The Growth of a Procedural Norm Without Substance?.- 4. Ecosystem Services and Payment for Environmental Services: Two Sides of the Same Coin?.- 5. Property Rights and Government Involvement in Market-like Biodiversity Conservation: Empirical Analysis of Bioprospecting.- PART II: The Construction and Evolution of Governance Regimes.- 6. Political Transformation and Watershed Governance in Java: Actors and Interests.- 7. Watershed Development, Decentralization and Institutional Change: Insights from the Mechanism Design Theory.- 8. Sharing the Costs and Benefits of Marine Protected Areas: Implications for Good Coastal Resource Governance.- 9. Indigenous Development Through Payments for Environmental Services in Arnhem Land, Australia: A Critical Analysis.- 10. A Nested Institutional Approach for Managing Bundle Ecosystem Services: Experience from Managing Satoyama Landscapes in Japan.- 11. Institutional and Historical Analysis of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Madagascar.- 12. The Governance of Costa Rica's Programme of Payments for Environmental Services: A Stakeholders' Perspective.- 13. Governance Across Multiple Levels of Agri-Environmental Measures in France.- PART III: The Social Embedding of Pes.- 14. Indigenous Protected Areas in Australia: The Importance of Geophysical and Institutional Scale in Assessing their Effectiveness for Biodiversity Conservation.- 15. Governing Forests for Environmental Provisioning Services: The Example of Honey Production in Southwest Ethiopia.- 16. Investing in Sustainable Use of Biodiversity for Social Benefit in Brazil.- 17. Integrating Agroecology with Payments for Ecosystem Services in Santa Catarina's Atlantic Forest.- 18. Towards an Institutional Approach of Payments for Ecosystem Services: Supply and Demand Perspectives from two Case Studies in the Nicaraguan Agricultural Frontier.- PART IV: The Special Case of Carbon Markets.- 19. A Policy Mix to Finance Protected Areas in Mato Grosso, Brazil.- 20. Forest Carbon Credits Generation in Brazil: The Case of Small Farmers.- 21. Carbon Sequestration Projects in the Peruvian Tropical Forest.- 22. On-Farm Tree Planting in Ghana's High Forest Zone: The Need To Consider Carbon Payments.- 23. Ecosystem Services and Environmental Governance: Some Concluding Remarks.- Index.