Integrating ecosystem markets to co-ordinate landscape-scale public benefits from nature.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystem markets are proliferating around the world in response to increasing demand for climate change mitigation and provision of other public goods. However, this may lead to perverse outcomes, for example where public funding crowds out private investment or different schemes create trade-offs between the ecosystem services they each target. The integration of ecosystem markets could address some of these issues but to date there have been few attempts to do this, and there is limited understanding of either the opportunities or barriers to such integration. This paper reports on a comparative analysis of eleven ecosystem markets in operation or close to market in Europe, based on qualitative analysis of 25 interviews, scheme documentation and two focus groups. Our results indicate th

SUBMITTER: Reed MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8754326 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature