Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the face of external biophysical stressors
Economic instruments such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are increasingly promoted to protect ecosystems (and their associated ecosystem services) that are threatened by processes of local and global change. Biophysical stressors external to a PES site, such as forest fires, pollut...
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ftunivpaisvasco:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/65351 2024-04-21T08:09:45+00:00 Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the face of external biophysical stressors Friess, Daniel A. Phelps, Jacob Garmendia Oleaga, Eneko 2014-11-24 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10810/65351 eng eng Elsevier https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378014001800 Global Environmental Change 30 : 31-42 (2015) 0959-3780 1872-9495 http://hdl.handle.net/10810/65351 /10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.013 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © 2014 Elsevier under CC BY-NC-ND license blue carbon ecosystem stability permanence REDD+ regime shift transaction costs info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2014 ftunivpaisvasco 2024-03-28T00:41:46Z Economic instruments such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are increasingly promoted to protect ecosystems (and their associated ecosystem services) that are threatened by processes of local and global change. Biophysical stressors external to a PES site, such as forest fires, pollution, sea level rise, and ocean acidification, may undermine ecosystem stability and sustained ecosystem service provision, yet their threats and impacts are difficult to account for within PES scheme design. We present a typology of external biophysical stressors, characterizing them in terms of stressors origin, spatial domain and temporal scale. We further analyse how external stressors can potentially impinge on key PES parameters, as they (1) threaten ecosystem service provision, additionality and permanence, (2) add challenges to the identification of PES providers and beneficiaries, and (3) add complexity and costs to PES mechanism design. Effective PES implementation under external stressors requires greater emphasis on the evaluation and mitigation of external stressors, and further instruments that can accommodate associated risks and uncertainties. A greater understanding of external stressors will increase our capacity to design multi-scale instruments to conserve important ecosystems in times of environmental change. DAF acknowledges the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (R-109-000-141-133) and the Ministry of Education, Govt. of Singapore (R-109-000-166-112). JP acknowledges the NUS Presidents’ Graduate Fellowship and Harry S. Truman Foundation. EG acknowledges Basque Government’s Postdoctoral Research Grant. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification ADDI: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV) |
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Economic instruments such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are increasingly promoted to protect ecosystems (and their associated ecosystem services) that are threatened by processes of local and global change. Biophysical stressors external to a PES site, such as forest fires, pollution, sea level rise, and ocean acidification, may undermine ecosystem stability and sustained ecosystem service provision, yet their threats and impacts are difficult to account for within PES scheme design. We present a typology of external biophysical stressors, characterizing them in terms of stressors origin, spatial domain and temporal scale. We further analyse how external stressors can potentially impinge on key PES parameters, as they (1) threaten ecosystem service provision, additionality and permanence, (2) add challenges to the identification of PES providers and beneficiaries, and (3) add complexity and costs to PES mechanism design. Effective PES implementation under external stressors requires greater emphasis on the evaluation and mitigation of external stressors, and further instruments that can accommodate associated risks and uncertainties. A greater understanding of external stressors will increase our capacity to design multi-scale instruments to conserve important ecosystems in times of environmental change. DAF acknowledges the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (R-109-000-141-133) and the Ministry of Education, Govt. of Singapore (R-109-000-166-112). JP acknowledges the NUS Presidents’ Graduate Fellowship and Harry S. Truman Foundation. EG acknowledges Basque Government’s Postdoctoral Research Grant. |
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Friess, Daniel A. Phelps, Jacob Garmendia Oleaga, Eneko |
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Friess, Daniel A. Phelps, Jacob Garmendia Oleaga, Eneko |
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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the face of external biophysical stressors |
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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the face of external biophysical stressors |
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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the face of external biophysical stressors |
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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the face of external biophysical stressors |
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payments for ecosystem services (pes) in the face of external biophysical stressors |
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378014001800 Global Environmental Change 30 : 31-42 (2015) 0959-3780 1872-9495 http://hdl.handle.net/10810/65351 /10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.013 |
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