Global mechanisms for sustaining and enhancing PES schemes

Farley, Josh; Aquino, Andre Rodrigues De; Daniels, Amy E.; Moulaert, Azur; Liu, Dan; Krause, Abby

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.02.016

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“…Community-based projects incorporating payments for ecosystem services (CBPES) allow individuals, governments, NGOs and private companies to pay for ecosystem services such as C storage and water conservation by supporting local-level projects promoting both community development and poverty alleviation [161]. These projects are being encouraged by international climate policies and investments [162]. In this issue, Dougill et al [163] review multiple CBPES that deliver C and poverty reduction benefits in African forests.…”

Section: Research Gaps and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

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Salguero‐Gómez

Quero

2012

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Drylands occupy large portions of the Earth, and are a key terrestrial biome from the socio-ecological point of view. In spite of their extent and importance, the impacts of global environmental change on them remain poorly understood. In this introduction, we review some of the main expected impacts of global change in drylands, quantify research efforts on the topic, and highlight how the articles included in this theme issue contribute to fill current gaps in our knowledge. Our literature analyses identify key under-studied areas that need more research (e.g. countries such as Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and Somalia, and deserts such as the Thar, Kavir and Taklamakan), and indicate that most global change research carried out to date in drylands has been done on a unidisciplinary basis. The contributions included here use a wide array of organisms (from micro-organisms to humans), spatial scales (from local to global) and topics (from plant demography to poverty alleviation) to examine key issues to the socio-ecological impacts of global change in drylands. These papers highlight the complexities and difficulties associated with the prediction of such impacts. They also identify the increased use of long-term experiments and multidisciplinary approaches as priority areas for future dryland research. Major advances in our ability to predict and understand global change impacts on drylands can be achieved by explicitly considering how the responses of individuals, populations and communities will in turn affect ecosystem services. Future research should explore linkages between these responses and their effects on water and climate, as well as the provisioning of services for human development and well-being.

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Section: Research Gaps and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

Maestre

Salguero‐Gómez

Quero

2012

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

251

209

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“…Analyses of whether or not the benefits from ecological restoration outweigh the costs are scarce (Bullock et al, 2011). A focus on restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services will require more emphasis on the benefits of stakeholders, one of the goals of the widely implemented Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) (Farley et al, 2010). Trade-offs among biodiversity conservation, maintaining of ecosystem services, and extensive land use are always popular topics of restoration research.…”

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Quantifying the impacts of grassland restoration on biodiversity and ecosystem services in China: A meta-analysis

Ren

Lü

2016

Ecological Engineering

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a b s t r a c tGiven the extent of global ecosystem degradation resulting from environmental changes and human activity, restoration efforts have increasingly focused on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Grassland, the largest terrestrial ecosystem globally and in China, has high ecological and economic value. We performed a meta-analysis to assess the impacts of grassland restoration on biodiversity and ecosystem services in China. The results showed that grassland restoration improved biodiversity by 32.44% and ecosystem services by 30.43%, although the restored grassland from degraded conditions failed to reach the level of non-degraded reference conditions for biodiversity and ecosystem services. The analysis of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the four ecological domains showed significant differences in restored grassland compared to the degraded and reference grassland. Restoration outcomes of biodiversity and ecosystem services were affected by different restoration approaches, but restoration age was not detected as significantly correlated with biodiversity and ecosystem services recovery. Biodiversity recovery, however, was positively correlated with ecosystem services recovery so far in our dataset. Despite this, these patterns require further elucidation and synthetic analyses must be conducted to assess and inform future restoration actions.

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“…FAO, 2007;TEEB, 2010), present initiatives are still small-scale in nature. Slowing down or reversing the present trend of ecosystem degradation may require global and compulsory incentives (Farley et al, 2010) comparable to the incentive measures being applied to combat man-made climate change, such as international emission trading.…”

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Distributive justice in the international regulation of global ecosystem services

Davidson

2012

Global Environmental Change

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Global mechanisms for sustaining and enhancing PES schemes

Cited by 57 publications

References 49 publications

It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

Quantifying the impacts of grassland restoration on biodiversity and ecosystem services in China: A meta-analysis

Distributive justice in the international regulation of global ecosystem services

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