3. What are the principles of payments for ecosystem services (PES)?

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How to identify suitable legal frameworks and institutional set-ups for PES? Key concepts & skills: • Economic aspects of ecosystems and links of ecosystem services and providers: How are the economics relevant to ecosystems- upstream and downstream groups, etc? • Market based incentives and practical sense components of PES programs: What are various options for payment schemes and way put together? • Institutional requirements and processes for stakeholder involvement and engagement that need to accompany these processes • The importance of good governance for PES: public participation, transparency and access to information • Practical sense components and elements of PES programs: property rights and contract issues.

READINGS

Recommended (Handbooks & Toolkits):

PAY: Establishing payments for ecosystem services (IUCN, 2006) En, Es - Chapter 4-6

Payments for Ecosystem Services: Legal and Institutional Frameworks (IUCN, 2009)

Governance of Ecosystem Services: Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, and Ecuador (IUCN, 2011)

Recommendations on Payments for Ecosystem Services in Integrated Water Resources Management (UNECE, 2007)

Negotiating Water Services (IIED, 2007) / Developing Markets for Water Services A free online access to payments for environmental services case studies across the world by IIEED

Coastal & Marine:

A Handbook on Governance and Socioeconomics of Large Marine Ecosystems (University of Rhode Island, 2006)

Links to Coastal Resources Valuation and Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) by the Regional Cooperation on Knowledge Management, Policy and Institutional Support to the Coral Triangle Initiative

Recommended (Case Studies):

First Global Inventory of Schemes Provisioning Water for Cities (FAO, 2011)

Lessons learned from PES: Green Water Credits (ISRIC- World Soil Information, 2006)

Ecosystem Marketplace: 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

Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM) Programme, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Designing Payments for Watershed Protection Services of Philippine Upland Dwellers

Français:
Droits fonciers et accès à l’eau au Sahel: Défis et perspectives pour l’agriculture et l’élevage (IIED, 2006)

Presentations from the November 2012 Regional Targeted Workshop for GEF IW Projects & Partners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, run by IW:LEARN, UNECE, IUCN, Rhodes University and FAO:

Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Forest Eco-Compensation in Georgia (Christian Susan)
Payments for Ecosystem Services, Concepts, Design & Process (Mark Smith)

Presentations from the April 2008 workshop on Payments for Ecosystem Services in Hanoi, Vietnam, run by IUCN and IW:LEARN:
Why Pay? Why Reward? (De Los Angeles)
Identifying Marketable Environmental Services (Peters)
Methods for Valuing Beneficiary Willingness to Pay: Contingent Valuation of Marine Turtles in East and Southeast Asia (Nabangchang/Thuy)
Tools and Issues in Identifying, Designing and Implementing PES (Emerton)
The Economic Background to Payments for Environmental Services (Emerton)
Legal and Policy Frameworks for PES: International Experience (Moore)
Setting in Place PES: Negotiating Arrangements (Amponin)
Elements of a PES Agreement (Moore)
Monitoring in PES (Agarwal)
When Villages Pay Each Other: Lessons From Local IBMs in Micro-catchments in India (Agarwal)
So what have we learned about PES so far?
User-Pay System in Sea Use Law of China (Endo)
The Pilot Payments for Forest Environmental Services Policy in Vietnam and PES pilot sites in the Dong Nai River Basin (Peters)
The Concept and Application of Payment for Ecosystem Services (Warner)

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