Payment for ecosystem services:emerging lessons  

作　　者：Pushpam Kumar 

机构地区：[1]Institute for Sustainable Water, Integrated Management and Ecosystem Research (SWIMER), University of Liverpool, L69 3GP UK

出　　处：《Ecological Economy》2008年第1期2-14,共13页生态经济（英文版）

摘　　要：Market based initiatives for management of degrading ecosystems and their services have received the added attention as one of the innovative responses in the reent years. Those initiatives such as direct and indirect payment for ecosystem services like premium for rain forest honey, payment by the people at the lower reach to those at the upper reach for the watershed services etc. have drawn the attention of the decision makers as they have proved to be far more cost effective.This paper wynthesizes the key messages from some of the paper are carbon, watershed services and biodiversity, We find that while credible valuation of ecosystem services for all services remain a critical concern behind setting up the payment mechanism, absent of necessary institutional framework may seriously undermine this innovative response for management of ecosystems. In the paper, necessary institutional mechanisms enabling the market for those services have been sketched out, Key messages from those cases have been synthesized.Market based initiatives for management of degrading ecosystems and their services have received the added attention as one of the innovative responses in the recent years. Those initiatives such as direct and indirect payment for ecosystem services like premium for rain forest honey, payment by the people at the lower reach to those at the upper reach for the watershed services etc. have drawn the attention of the decision makers as they have proved to be far more cost effective. This paper synthesizes the key messages from some of the celebrated but well established market for ecosystem services across the world. The ecosystem services considered in the paper are car-bon, watershed services and biodiversity. We find that while credible valuation of ecosystem services for all services remain a critical concern behind setting up the payment mechanism, absent of necessary institutional framework may seriously undermine this innovative response for management of ecosystems. In the paper, necessary institution-al mechanisms enabling the market for those services have been sketched out. Key messages from those cases have been synthesized.

关 键 词：VALUATION Ecosystem services PAYMENT GOVERNANCE 

分 类 号：Q14[生物学—生态学]