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Global Public Sector Trends in Ecosystem Services, 2009-2012
 This document was developed to help businesspeople track the public sector’s uptake of ecosystem services concepts around the world.  
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UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication Publications Review
 UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication Publications Review
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Ecosystem Service Market Development: The Role and Opportunity for Finance
One potential obstacle to the emergence of markets for [ecosystem service] credits is a lack of financing for projects seeking to ...
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RESOURCES Special Editiona: Putting A Value on Nature's Services
The spring issue of Resources magazine is devoted to a special series of articles on the benefits of ecosystems, entitled "Putting ...
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Financing Environmental Services: The Costa Rican Experience and its Implications
This article provides a snapshot of a fascinating, rapidly evolving experiment in progress: markets for the environmental benefits of forests.
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Valuation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Biodiversity Conservation: An Integrated Hydrological and Economic Model to Value the Enhanced Nitrogen Retention in Renaturated Streams
This paper presents a user-friendly procedure to quantify the increased N-retention in a renaturated river using easily available data.
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Let's Make a Deal: Draft PA nutrient policy would let wastewater plants, farmers trade credits
The Bay Journal focuses on a pilot trading program holding a reverse auction in Pennsylvania.
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North Carolina's Ecosystem Enhancement Program
This article provides a summary of the origins, development and incipient years of North Carolina's Ecosystem Enhancement Program. Particularly useful ...
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Crunch Time for Water Quality Trading
A insightful article analyzing the issues impeding the success of water quality trading in the United States and calling for actions ...
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Markets for the Environment
This report, actually a series of 5 papers, first examines why market mechanisms are being widely proposed by policy makers to ...
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Costing Mother Nature
An excellent and concise article look at how Australia is leading the world in assessing and valuing ecosystems' 'free' services.
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Making Conservation Profitable
Philanthropy and government regulations alone simply aren't up to the task of rescuing nature, and it's time for some well designed ...
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Environmental services of forests: A new role for forests in the Green Economy
This article explores the potential returns from non-timber benefits - or environmental services - provided by planted forests.
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Ecosystem Services: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems
This article provides a thorough look at how natural ecosystems also perform fundamental life-support services without which human civilizations would cease ...
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For Services Rendered
Tropical forests provide the planet with many valuable services. Are beneficiaries prepared to pay for them?
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Interview: Make Saving Nature Profitable: A famed ecologist wants to put price tags on the priceless.
An interview with Gretchen Daily that probes the content of her recent book, The New Economy of Nature, coauthored by Katherine ...
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The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value
This article looks at the world's ecosystems as capital assests and explores their management.
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The Domestic Benefits of Tropical Forests
This review finds that the quantifiable benefits of forest preservation in providing hydrological services and nontimber forest products are highly variable.
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Nature 'pays biggest dividends'
Researchers describe how the cash return from conserving wild places is far higher than the gains made from developing them.
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