Payments for ecosystem services

found: Work cat.: Paying for biodiversity : enhancing the cost-effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services, c2010:p. 4 of cover (Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are direct and flexible incentive-based mechanisms under which the user or beneficiary of an ecosystem service makes a direct payment to an individual or community whose land use decisions have an impact on the ecosystem service provision)

found: Wikipedia, Apr. 22, 2011(Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), also known as Payments for Environmental Services (or Benefits) broadly defined, is the practice of offering incentives to farmers or landowners in exchange for managing their land to provide some sort of ecological service. These programmes promote the conservation of natural resources in the marketplace; PES programs are voluntary and mutually beneficial contracts between consumers of ecosystem services and the suppliers of these services.)

found: World Wildlife Fund website, Apr. 22, 2011:Science > Ecosystem services (WWF is leading the development and implementation of an innovative approach to sustainable financing for conservation known as Payment for Environmental Services, or PES; PES schemes reward those whose lands provide these services, with subsidies or market payments from those who benefit.)

found: Payments for environmental services from agricultural landscapes, via Food and Agricultural Organization of the U.N. website, Apr. 22, 2011(Payments for Environmental Services (PES) programmes, as incentives for improved land management; Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are one type of economic incentive for those that manage ecosystems to improve the flow of environmental services that they provide. Generally these incentives are provided by all those who benefit from environmental services, which includes local, regional and global beneficiaries. PES is an environmental policy tool that is becoming increasingly important in developing and developed countries.)

found: PNAS, July 15, 2008, viewed online Apr. 22, 2011:p. 9465 (Payments for ecosystem services (PES) policies compensate individuals or communities for undertaking actions that increase the provision of ecosystem services such as water purification, flood mitigation, or carbon sequestration. PES schemes rely on incentives to induce behavioral change and can thus be considered part of the broader class of incentive- or market-basedmechanisms for environmental policy.)