Title: Managing Tropical Forest Ecosystem Services: An Overview of Options
Abstract: Decision-makers can choose between three broad classes of policy instruments to manage ecosystem services: incentives, disincentives, and enabling measures. This chapter reviews the conceptual and empirical literature on examples from each of these classes in the context of tropical forest ecosystem services management. We propose a conceptual framework for the evaluation of management options that highlights performance measures and potential trade-offs between the environmental and socioeconomic objectives of ecosystem services management. We formulate three interrelated areas of future research needs toward: (1) dealing with uncertain spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services, (2) measuring the costs and benefits of ecosystem services' provision, and (3) developing rigorous approaches to evaluating ecosystem services management performance for a broad set of measures and implementation settings.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-10-03
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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