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Rangeland Ecosystem Services
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Payment for Ecosystem Services is the practice of offering incentives, often financial, to landowners in exchange for managing their land to provide some sort of ecological service(s). Links to program examples from across the globe.
References based on Location
California
- Guidelines for Creating Effective Ecosystem Services Incentive Programs and Policy
- Hardwood Rangeland Landowners in California from 1985 to 2004: Production, Ecosystem Services, and Permanence
- Payments for Ecosystem Services: A California Rancher Perspective
- The Feasibility of Water Quality Markets for Rangelands in the Central Valley
- Valuing Ecosystems
- What's Nature Worth?
USA
- A Sustainable Chesapeake - Better Models for Conservation
- Designing Payments for Ecosystem Services
- Getting Paid for Stewardship
- Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Increasing Landowner Compensation for Ecosystem Services
- Income Earning Potential versus Consumptive Amenities in Determining Ranchland Values
- Measuring Up: Synchronizing Biodiversity Measurement Systems for Markets and Other Incentive Programs
- MONITORING AND ENFORCING PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES PROGRAMS
- Stacking Ecosystem Services Payments: Risks and Solutions
- State of Biodiversity Markets - Offset and Compensation Programs Worldwide
- Taking Stock: Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services in the United States
- Valuing ecosystem services from wetlands restoration in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley
- Water Quality Trading Toolkit for Permit Writers
World
- CIFOR Occasional Paper No. 42
- Creating Markets for Ecosystem Services
- Ecosystem services from agriculture and agroforestry: measurement and payment
- Enhancing The Environment Through Payment For Ecosystem Services. Does Payment For Ecosystem Services Offer A New Opportunity For Natural Resource Management And How Can It Work In Practice?
- Environment Bank And Mission Markets Launch Online Conservation Credit Platform
- How New York City Used an Ecosystem Services Strategy Carried out Through an Urban-Rural Partnership to Preserve the Pristine Quality of Its Drinking Water and Save Billions of Dollars
- Introduction to Payments for Ecosystem Services
- Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: from forests to rangelands
- Little Biodiversity Finance Book
- Payment for and Management of Ecosystem Services
- Payments for Ecosystem Services - Getting Started: A Primer
- Payments for Ecosystem Services - Paper 4
- Payments for Ecosystem Services and Food Security
- The State of Food and Agriculture 2007: Paying farmers for environmental services
Websites based on Location
California
USA
- Santa Fe NM - Public Relations Outreach about PES
- The Willamette Partnership - Oregon
- Willamette Program Protocols, Tools and Templates