Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services [Hardcover]

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.This book offers a cutting-edge analysis of the governance of ecosystems and the environment. It provides a worldwide perspective and shows how solutions must be decentralized, more flexible, and more on polycentric institutional arrangements.

1.? Introduction: Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services (Laura Rival and Roldan Muradian)

PART I: Keywords and Concepts

?2. Managing Tropical Forest Ecosystem Services: An Overview of Options (Jan B?rner and S. A. Vosti)

?3. Partnerships in Global Governance: The Growth of a Procedural Norm Without Substance? (Teresa Kramarz)

?4. Ecosystem Services and Payment for Environmental Services: Two Sides of the Same Coin? (Denis Pesche, Philippe M?ral, Marie Hrabanski and Marie Bonnin)

?5. Property Rights and Government Involvement in Market-like Biodiversity Conservation: Empirical Analysis of Bioprospecting (Per M. Stromberg, Unai Pascual and Claudia Ituarte-Lima)

PART II: The Construction and Evolution of Governance Regimes

?6. Political Transformation and Watl³.