Selling forest environmental services : market-based mechanisms for conservation and development / edited by Stefano Pagiola, Joshua Bishop, and Natasha Landell-Mills. - London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2002. - xix, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 Sepâulveda, 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 Paranâa and Minas Gerais, Brazil / Peter H May ... [et al.] -- 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 Tâe / 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.

1853838896 (hardback) 9781853838897 (hardback) 1853838888 (pbk.) 9781853838880 (pbk.)

2002009275

GBA2-54055


Forest conservation.
Forest management.
Forests and forestry--Environmental aspects.
Conservación de los recursos naturales.
Conservación de bosques.
Silvicultura.
Forets--Conservation.
Forets--Gestion.
Sylviculture--Aspect de l'environnement.

SD 411 / S467 2002

634.95