Creating Markets for Ecosystem Services
Staff research paper
Creating Markets for Ecosystem Services by Greg Murtough, Barbara Aretino and Anna Matysek was released on 19 June 2002. The paper investigates how well environmental problems related to salinity, biodiversity and climate change can be addressed by creating markets for ecosystem services. Also see:
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CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Key messages, Overview
1 Introduction
2 Conceptual framework
2.1 Why create markets?
2.2 Different forms of market creation
2.3 Conditions under which creation is more likely to be effective
3 Biodiversity, salinity and climate change
3.1 Threats to biodiversity
3.2 Salinity and water quality
3.3 Climate change
3.4 Implications
4 Existing and proposed markets
4.1 Tradeable schemes without offsets
4.2 Tradeable schemes with offsets
4.3 Non-tradeable schemes without offsets
4.4 Non-tradeable schemes with offsets
4.5 Summary
5 Concluding comments
5.1 Scientific uncertainty
5.2 Market liquidity of tradeable schemes
5.3 Regulation
Glossary
References
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