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70 - Assessment needs to support the development of arrangements for Payments for Ecosystem Services from tropical montane cloud forests

from Part VII - Cloud forest conservation, restoration, and management issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2011

S. S. Tognetti
Affiliation:
Environmental Science and Policy Consultant, USA
B. Aylward
Affiliation:
Ecosystem Economics LLC, USA
L.A. Bruijnzeel
Affiliation:
VU University, Netherlands
L. A. Bruijnzeel
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
F. N. Scatena
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
L. S. Hamilton
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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The willingness of beneficiaries to pay for “ecosystem services” will ultimately depend on confidence in the effectiveness of actions taken to ensure their continued delivery at the watershed scale. Key aspects of effectiveness include: (i) the integrity of ecosystem functioning or processes that support service provision, (ii) whether the impacts or benefits are economically significant at the relevant (watershed) scale, and (iii) the effectiveness of institutional arrangements needed to ensure access to benefits by those who pay for them. The biophysical characteristics of the relevant watershed/ecosystem also have implications for the types of institutional arrangements that are possible or necessary to control access to services. Given the dynamic nature of ecosystems, and the potentially long lag time between multiple causes and effects over large spatial areas, the outcomes of management actions are inherently variable, uncertain, and site-specific. In the absence of adequate site-specific assessment, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives are often based on inappropriate generalizations or even myth regarding the hydrological impact of certain types of land-cover changes. Cloud forests in particular are generally assumed to increase the supply of water because they capture water from clouds, beyond that provided by precipitation. However, there is a need for further site-specific assessments, to better define and quantify the extent to which cloud forests account for additional supplies of water compared to other land-cover types that might replace them (e.g. pasture) under various climatic conditions. […]

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Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
Science for Conservation and Management
, pp. 671 - 685
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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