Defenders' Experts
Ecosystem Service Payments
Defenders investigating the potential for employing payments for ecosystem services as an additional incentive mechanism. Presentations and publications on the use of market-based mechanisms for conservation of ecosystem services and the economic value of those services help further the development of ecosystem service payments. The program sponsors periodic presentations by researchers and agency staff involved in valuing ecosystem services and creating market mechanisms.
Projects
Defenders is participating the UNDP/GEF “Institutionalizing Payments for Ecosystem Services” initiative by partnering with Forest Trends on projects concerning agri-environmental payment models and the Marketplace for Nature.
Defenders of Wildlilfe was successful in helping to get ecosystem service payment programs incorporated in the 2008 Farm Bill. We are working with the Administration to determine how ecosystem service payments and work will be implemented.
Papers, presentations, and articles
Kroeger, Timm and Frank Casey. 2007. An assessment of market-based approaches to providing ecosystem services on agricultural lands. Ecological Economics 64(2):321-332.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09218009
Kroeger, Timm. 2006. Design is everything: Structuring ecosystem service markets to achieve ecological objectives. Paper presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, August 6 - 11, 2006, Memphis, Tennessee.
Casey, Frank, and Timm Kroeger. 2006. Market-based Approaches to Protecting Ecosystem Services: The Case of Biodiversity Conservation. Presented to the California Biodiversity Council, Sacramento, California, December 14, 2006.
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