Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation

Prospects, Challenges and Policy Implications
Herausgeber: Mohammed, Essam Yassin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection. Yet across the world, these resources are fast-diminishing under the weight of pollution, land clearance, coastal development, overfishing, natural disasters and climate change. This book shows how economic instruments can be used to incentivize the conservation of marine and coastal resources. It is shown that traditional approaches to halt the decline focus on regulating against destructive practices, but to little effect. A more successful strategy could be to establish schemes such as payments for ecosystem services (PES), or incorporate an element of financial incentives into existing regulatory mechanisms. Examples, both terrestrial and marine, from across the world suggest that PES can work to protect both livelihoods and environments. But to succeed, it is shown that these schemes must be underpinned by robust research, clear property rights, sound governance structures, equitable benefit sharing, and sustainable finance. Case studies are included from south and east Asia, Latin America, Africa and Australia. The book explores the prospects and challenges, and draws lessons from PES and PES-like programmes from across the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780415855983
• ISBN-10: 0415855985
• Artikelnr.: 38029972

Autorenporträt

Essam Yassin Mohammed is an Environmental Economist at the International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Prof U. Rashid Sumaila Foreword Camilla Toulmin 1. Introduction 2.
Using Valuation to Make the Case for PCMES: Promoting Investments in Marine
and Coastal Ecosystems as Development Infrastructure 3. Promoting Marine
and Coastal Ecosystem Functions through Direct Economic Incentives: the
Case for Multilevel Good Governance 4. Payments for Marine and Coastal
Ecosystem Services and the Governance of Common Pool Natural Resources 5.
Integrated Payments for Ecosystem Services: a Governance Path from Lakes
and Rivers to Coastal Areas in China 6. Payments for Marine Ecosystem
Services and Food Security: Lessons from Income Transfer Programmes 7.
Allocation of Fishing Rights to Support Local Fishermen in South Africa's
Western Cape 8. Economic and Non-economic Conditions Affecting Sustainable
Aquaculture: Why Don't Small Shrimp Producers Participate in Organic
Certification Schemes? 9. Could Payment for Environmental Services
Reconcile Fish Conservation with Small-scale Fisheries in the Brazilian
Amazon? 10. Payments for Hilsa Fish (Tenualosa ilisha) Conservation in
Bangladesh 11. Payments to Landholders for Managing Water, Land and
Ecosystem (WLE) Services in Coastal Agricultural Catchments for Protecting
the Great Barrier Reef 12. Africa's Mangrove Habitats: Prospects and
Challenges of Payment for Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services 13.
Economic Instruments for Sustainability in Mexico's Marine Protected Areas
and the Perverse Subsidy Challenge