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State of Watershed Payments

An Emerging Marketplace

How can we as a society address the many problems that plague the waterfront? How do we get people to be more mindful about their water use? How do we regulate pollution flowing into our waterways? How do we put a stop to the growing number of dead zones around the world? And how do we ensure that...

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Executive Summary: State of Watershed Payments: An Emerging Marketplace

Tracy Stanton, Marta Echavarria, Katherine Hamilton, Caroline Ott - Ecosystem Marketplace - June 2010

Tools for the Tides

Exploring Coastal and Marine Markets

Global climate-change talks in Copenhagen might not have yielded a new greenhouse-gas protocol, but they did yield an agreement on the need to develop financing mechanisms that reward people in developing countries for saving their rainforests and adopting sustainable landuse practices — both of...

Payments for Ecosystem Services: Getting Started in Marine and Coastal Ecosystems

A Primer

Healthy and robust marine ecosystems provide the underpinnings for profitable industries and support coastal communities throughout the world. In addition, oceans play crucial roles in regulating the atmosphere and modulating weather, storing carbon, cycling nutrients, and providing

Paying Poseidon: Financing the Protection of Valuable Ecosystem Services

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Beyond Carbon

Biodiversity and Water Markets

It is widely acknowledged that well-functioning ecosystems provide reliable and clean flows of water, productive soils, healthy and balanced biota, and many other services for human well-being. It is also widely documented that today many ecosystems and the services they provide are under...

Marine Ecosystem Services Program

Conserving Ocean Ecosystems and Safeguarding Coastal Communities

The MARES Program’s scope of work includes developing the framework and tools for application of market-based mechanisms to marine and coastal conservation, testing these methods in the field with pilot projects, and communicating and raising awareness on the usefulness of these tools and methods...

Marine Ecosystems and Management Newsletter

International News and Analysis on Marine Ecosystem-based Management

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