Using markets to preserve forests and the services they provide

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2007
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Washington, DC: World Bank
Abstract

This presentation describes the opportunity and theory behind using market-based Payments for Environmental Services to preserve forests. Pagiola discusses the challenges, limitations and possibilities of PES schemes for forest and water services, drawing from several case studies.

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Water management, Payments for environmental services, Forest management, Environmental services, Markets, Conservation incentives, Forests, PES, Policy, Externalities, Market-based instruments, Property rights, Supply-side PES, Water services, Farm/Enterprise Scale Watershed
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Presented at the IUFRO Symposium: Integrative Science for Integrative Management, Saariselkä, Finland, 17 August 2007