Browsing by Author "Markets for Ecosystem Services Project"

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  • Goulburn Broken Catchment, Victoria: Development offsets and tradeable property rights pilot studies
    Markets for Ecosystem Services Project (2007-06-18)
    There are two "markets for ecosystem services" pilot studies in the Goulburn Broken Catchment of Victoria, Australia. The first, "Development Offsets", aims to develop a scheme of defined "offsets" to compensate for specific ecosystem impacts of rural development. The second, "Treading Salty Water or Trading Salt & Water", addresses the costs of dryland salinity with a proposed mechanism for tradeable property rights. The objective is to incorporate the broader scale impacts of salinity into individual landholder decision making.
  • Murrumbidgee Catchment, New South Wales: Recharge Trading and Targeting Markets pilot studies
    Markets for Ecosystem Services Project (2007-06-18)
    There are two 'markets for ecosystem services' pilot studies in the Murrumbidgee Catchment of New South Wales, Australia. The first, "Recharge Trading", aims to develop a market-based instrument to resolve the issue of salinization caused by excess groundwater recharge from irrigated agriculture. The second, "Targeting Markets", explores the factors and conditions that make market-based approaches more or less suitable for addressing a natural resource management issue. The study suggests that greater heterogeneity in socio-economic factors, biophysical conditions, and management options makes market-based approaches more appropriate.