Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes: Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
本书通过13章内容，系统回顾了农业景观中环境服务付费的理论，并基于实证案例探讨其作为减贫工具的潜力，适合关注生态补偿与农村发展的研究者。
The last decade has seen an explosion of interest in incentives to induce managers of working agricultural and forest lands to provide environmental services (ES). Stefano Pagiola, Joshua Bishop and Natasha Landell-Mills broke ground with their edited volume on payment for environmental services (PES) from forested landscapes (Pagiola et al., 2002). Building on a typology of ES that covered timber provisioning along with climate, water and biodiversity regulation, they mapped out how the basic supply–demand relationships vary across the scales at which these services are found. After a review of PES experiments with alternative provider mechanisms, the editors called for research into designing payment mechanisms that match demand with potential supply. The editors of the current volume, Leslie Lipper et al., examine PES through an agricultural lens. Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes focuses on PES in agricultural landscapes, with particular attention to PES as an anti-poverty strategy. In 13 chapters, the book reviews the theory behind PES and offers five empirical chapters on prospects for agricultural PES and two chapters on experiences with PES schemes that were implemented. Poverty reduction is a secondary theme picked up in four of the seven empirical PES chapters. Lipper and co-authors provide a useful conceptual synthesis of the literature with a helpful typology of ES, demand sources and supply issues, with special focus on PES as a poverty alleviation tool. They call for more research into consumer willingness to pay for ES.