Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Panama Canal Watershed Part II
per Haworth Press Exciting opportunities await the use of market mechanisms for protecting forest ecosystems. However, questions remain on how to best apply these mechanisms. Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Panama Canal Watershed provides an integrated, interdisciplinary methodological approach for evaluating market opportunities for watershed services, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity protection. Using the Panama Canal Watershed as a case study example, this probing resource addresses the main questions often asked about the various practical aspects of the emerging markets for ecosystem services, including quantifying value, payment structure, and equitable distribution of benefits. Environmental issues are often at odds with economic and business concerns. Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services examines practical strategies to integrate diverse aspects into coherent strategies that benefit all. A scientific overview of the science and current knowledge provides a solid foundation to build policy and positive direction using the Panama Canal Watershed as an example. This unique resource sheds useful light on the challenges and provides insightful recommendations for areas struggling with ecosystem issues and the application of market mechanisms. This text is extensively referenced and includes several tables to clearly illustrate data.

The Vittel payments for ecosystem services: A "perfect" PES case?
This case study examines the Vittel PES case, providing a look for options based on existing legislation.

Net Pay: Economic Analysis of Mangrove Restoration
A presentation given at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies International Society of Tropcial Forestry conference, March 2, 2007. The presentation discusses methods of economic valuation for the ecosystem services of mangrove restoration. It also deals with efforts in Kenya to restore mangrove forests and to ensure that the local people involved in the restoration process benefit economically from it.

The Role for Sustainably Managed Forests in Climate Change Mitigation
This article addresses the Kyoto Protocol principles of additionality, permanence, and leakage, and challenges the way that these principles are being used to qualify forest offset projects as climate change mitigation measures.

Assessing the Market: Conversations with Private Sector Businesses About Payments for Ecosystem Services – A Letter from Uganda
Without buyers, there is no market. Given the importance of engaging a broad range of prospective buyers in the discussion about payments for ecosystem services (PES), the Ecosystem Marketplace asked Alice Ruhweza, East and Southern Africa Katoomba Group Coordinator, about a new approach to opening up new conversations with private sector firms about their reliance on ecosystem services and potential interest in PES

Environmental Management Systems: An Implmentation Guide for Small and Medium Sized Organizations
This guide summarizes overall management systems concepts. This section explains what a management system is and what must be in place for a successful EMS.

New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme
Australian state scheme that imposes mandatory greenhouse gas reduction benchmarks for electricity retailers and certain other parties.