Ecosystem services from agriculture and agroforestry : measurement and payment /: measurement and payment. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bruno Rapidel [and others].
• Other Names: Rapidel, Bruno
• Contents: Principles and methods for assessing climate change mitigation as an ecosystem service in agroecosystems / Kristell Hergoualc'h -- Quantifying services and identifying watershed priority areas for soil and water conservation programmes / Miguel Marchamalo [and others] -- Measuring biodiversity / Fabrice A.J. DeClerck and Alejandra Martínez Salinas -- Ecological mechanisms for pest and disease control in coffee and cacao agroecosystems of the neotropics / Jacques Avelino, G. Martijn ten Hoopen, and Fabrice A.J. DeClerck -- Services from plant-pollinator interactions in the neotropics / Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi [and others] -- Ecological indexing as a tool for the payment for ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes: the experience of the GEF-silvopastoral project in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Colombia / Cristóbal Villanueva [and others] -- Estimating the cost and benefits of supplying hydrological ecosystem services: an application for small-scale rural drinking water organizations / Róger Madrigal-Ballestero -- Developing a business plan for forestry and other land use-based carbon projects / Colin Moore and Till Neeff -- A functional anatomy of the project-based carbon markets / Till Neeff and Jan Fehse -- The value of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes / Fabrice A.J. DeClerck and Jean-François Le Coq -- PES and eco-label: a comparative analysis of their limits and opportunities to foster environmental services provision / Jean-François Le Coq, Gabriela Soto, and Cliserio González Hernández -- Leveraging and sustainability of PES: lessons learned in Costa Rica / Rodrigo Murillo, Bernard Kilian, and René Castro -- The Mexican PES programme: targeting for higher efficiency in environmental protection and poverty alleviation / José Eduardo Rolón Sánchez, Ina Salas Boucher, and Iván Islas Cortés -- Assessing the impact of institutional design of payments for environmental services: the Costa Rican experience / Juan Robalino, Alexander Pfaff, and Laura Villalobos -- Certification process in the coffee value chain: achievements and limits to foster provision of environmental services / Gabriela Soto and Jean-François Le Coq -- Securing the continuous supply of drinking water in a territory requires concerted actions and integrating intervention strategies: a case study in Copán Ruinas, Honduras / Cornelis Prins and Josué León -- Payment for environmental services: perfecting an imperfect market by building up environmental solutions / Carlos Manuel Rodríguez -- Measurement and payment of ecosystem services from agriculture and agroforestry: new insights from the neotropics / Bruno Rapidel [and others].
• Publisher Details: London Washington, DC : Earthscan
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 414 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 630.208/6; Agriculture -- Environmental aspects; Agroforestry -- Environmental aspects; Agricultural ecology; Ecosystem services; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General; Agricultural ecology; Agriculture -- Environmental aspects; Agroforestry -- Environmental aspects; Ecosystem services; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136537608; 1136537600
• Related ISBNs: 9781849711470; 184971147X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.