Cutting-edge commentary and analysis of governance mechanisms for enhancing the provision of ecosystem services

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1. Introduction: Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services.- PART I: Keywords and Concepts.- 2. Managing Tropical Forest Ecosystem Services: An Overview of Options.- 3. Partnerships in Global Governance: The Growth of a Procedural Norm Without Substance?.- 4. Ecosystem Services and Payment for Environmental Services: Two Sides of the Same Coin?.- 5. Property Rights and Government Involvement in Market-like Biodiversity Conservation: Empirical Analysis of Bioprospecting.- PART II: The Construction and Evolution of Governance Regimes.- 6. Political Transformation and Watershed Governance in Java: Actors and Interests.- 7. Watershed Development, Decentralization and Institutional Change: Insights from the Mechanism Design Theory.- 8. Sharing the Costs and Benefits of Marine Protected Areas: Implications for Good Coastal Resource Governance.- 9. Indigenous Development Through Payments for Environmental Services in Arnhem Land, Australia: A Critical Analysis.- 10. A Nested Institutional Approach for Managing Bundle Ecosystem Services: Experience from Managing Satoyama Landscapes in Japan.- 11. Institutional and Historical Analysis of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Madagascar.- 12. The Governance of Costa Rica's Programme of Payments for Environmental Services: A Stakeholders' Perspective.- 13. Governance Across Multiple Levels of Agri-Environmental Measures in France.- PART III: The Social Embedding of Pes.- 14. Indigenous Protected Areas in Australia: The Importance of Geophysical and Institutional Scale in Assessing their Effectiveness for Biodiversity Conservation.- 15. Governing Forests for Environmental Provisioning Services: The Example of Honey Production in Southwest Ethiopia.- 16. Investing in Sustainable Use of Biodiversity for Social Benefit in Brazil.- 17. Integrating Agroecology with Payments for Ecosystem Services in Santa Catarina's Atlantic Forest.- 18. Towards an Institutional Approach of Payments for Ecosystem Services: Supply and Demand Perspectives from two Case Studies in the Nicaraguan Agricultural Frontier.- PART IV: The Special Case of Carbon Markets.- 19. A Policy Mix to Finance Protected Areas in Mato Grosso, Brazil.- 20. Forest Carbon Credits Generation in Brazil: The Case of Small Farmers.- 21. Carbon Sequestration Projects in the Peruvian Tropical Forest.- 22. On-Farm Tree Planting in Ghana's High Forest Zone: The Need To Consider Carbon Payments.- 23. Ecosystem Services and Environmental Governance: Some Concluding Remarks.- Index.