Modelling the impacts of payments for biodiversity conservation on regional land-use patterns

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 255-267

  de Koning, G H J ^a   Benitez P C ^a   Munoz F ^a   Olschewski, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecuador; Land use allocation model; Payments for ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LAND-USE ALLOCATION MODELS; LAND-USE PATTERNS;

BIODIVERSITY;

AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; COFFEE; CONSERVATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LAND USE CHANGE; REGIONAL PLANNING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; LAND USE;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 36048987698     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Balmford A., Bruner A., Cooper P., Costanza R., Farber S., Green R.E., Jenkins M., Jefferiss P., Jessamy V., Madden J., Munro K., Myers N., Naeem S., Paavola J., Rayment M., Rosendo S., Roughgarden J., Trumper K., and Turner R.K. Economic reasons for conserving wild nature. Science 296 (2002) 950-953
2. Benítez P.C., Kuosmanen T., Olschewski R., and van Kooten G.C. Conservation payments under risk: a stochastic dominance approach. Am. J. Agric. Econ. 88 (2006) 1-15
3. Brown K. Integrating conservation and development: a case of institutional misfit. Front. Ecol. Environ. 1 (2003) 479-487
4. Bruijnzeel L.A. Hydrological functions of tropical forests: not seeing the soil for the trees?. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 104 (2004) 185-228
5. Bruner A.G., Gullison R.E., Rice R.E., and da Fonseca G.A.B. Effectiveness of parks in protecting tropical biodiversity. Science 291 (2001) 125-128
6. Chapin F.S., Zavaleta E.S., Eviner V.T., Naylor R.L., Vitousek P.M., Reynolds H.L., Hooper D.U., Lavorel S., Sala O.E., Hobbie S.E., Mack M.C., and Díaz S. Consequences of changing biodiversity. Nature 405 (2000) 234-242
7. Chee Y.E. An ecological perspective on the valuation of ecosystem services. Biol. Conserv. 120 (2004) 549-565
8. Clark J.S., Carpenter S.R., Barber M., Collins S., Dobson A., Lodge D.M., Pascual M., Pielke, Pizer W., Pringle C., Reid W.V., Rose K.A., Sala O.E., Schlesinger W.H., Wall D.H., and Wear D. Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. Science 293 (2001) 657-660
9. Collender R.N., and Zilberman. Land allocation under uncertainty for alternative specifications of return distributions. Am. J. Agric. Econ. 67 (1985) 779-786
10. Costanza R. Social goals and the valuation of natural capital. Environ. Monit. Assess. 86 (2003) 19-28
11. de Koning F., Olschewski R., Veldkamp E., Benítez P., López-Ulloa M., Schlichter T., and de Urquiza M. The ecological and economic potential of carbon sequestration in forests; examples from South America. Ambio 34 (2005) 224-229
12. de Marco Jr. P., and Monteiro Coelho F. Services performed by the ecosystem: forest remnants influence agricultural cultures' pollination and production. Biodivers. Conserv. 13 (2004) 1245-1255
13. Farber S.C., Costanza R., and Wilson M.A. Economic and ecological concepts for valuing ecosystem services. Ecol. Econ. 41 (2002) 375-392
14. Ferraro P.J. Global habitat protection: limitations of development interventions and a role for conservation performance payments. Conserv. Biol. 15 (2000) 990-1000
15. Ferraro P.J., and Kiss A. Direct payments to conserve biodiversity. Science 298 (2002) 1718-1719
16. Heikkinen V.P., and Kuosmanen T. Stochastic dominance portfolio analysis of forestry assets. In: Wesseler J., Weikard H.P., and Weaver R. (Eds). Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Natural Forestry Assets (2003), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Northhampton 217-234
17. Holl K.D., Loik M.E., Lin E.H.V., and Samuels I.A. Tropical montane forest restoration in Costa Rica: overcoming barriers to dispersal and establishment. Restor. Ecol. 8 (2000) 339-349
18. Hooper D.U., Chapin III F.S., Ewel J.J., Hector A., Inchausti P., Lodge D.M., Loreau M., Naeem S., Schmid B., Setälä H., Symstad A.J., Vandermeer J., and Wardle D.A. Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge. Ecol. Monogr. 75 (2005) 3-35
19. Hughes R., and Flintan F. Integrating conservation and development experience: a review and bibliography of the ICDP literature. Biodiversity and Livelihoods Issues No. 3 (2001), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
20. Huston M.A., and Marland G. Carbon management and biodiversity. J. Environ. Manage. 67 (2003) 77-86
21. INAMHI, 2002. Servicios Hidrometeoreológicos. Datos de las estaciones de Camposano y Paján. Available at http://www.inamhi.gov.ec/.
22. Just R.E., and Pope R.D. Past progress and future opportunities for agricultural risk research. In: Just R.E., and Pope R.D. (Eds). A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in U.S. Agriculture (2002), Kluwer Academic Publishers, London 557-577
23. Kerr S., Liub S., Pfaff A.S.P., and Flint Hughes R. Carbon dynamics and land-use choices: building a regional-scale multidisciplinary model. J. Environ. Manage. 69 (2004) 25-37
24. Kremen C., Williams N.M., Bugg R.L., Fay J.P., and Thorp R.W. The area requirements of an ecosystem service: crop pollination by native bee communities in California. Ecol. Lett. 7 (2004) 1109-1119
25. Kuosmanen T. Efficient diversification according to stochastic dominance criteria. Manage. Sci. 50 (2004) 1390-1406
26. Landell-Mills N., and Porras I.T. Silver Bullet or Fools' gold? A Global Review of Markets for Forest Environmental Services and their Impact on the Poor (2003), International Institute for Environment and Development, London
27. Larco, A., 2006. Influence of socio-cultural values and beliefs in decisions on natural resource use by coffee-producing families in Jipijapa and Paján (in Spanish). Technical Report Bio-Sys project. University Goettingen.
28. Loreau M., Naeem S., Inchausti P., Bengtsson J., Grime J.P., Hector A., Hooper D.U., Huston M.A., Raffaelli D., Schmid B., Tilman D., and Wardle D.A. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: current knowledge and future challenges. Science 294 (2001) 804-808
29. Lozada T., de Koning G.H.J., Marché R., Klein A.M., and Tscharntke T. Tree recovery and seed dispersal by birds, comparing forest, agroforestry and abandoned agroforestry in coastal Ecuador. Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst. 8 (2007) 131-140
30. Marché R. Bird diversity in differently managed coffee agroforest and forest sites in coastal Ecuador. Agroecology (2003), Göttingen University p. 85
31. Markowitz H. Portfolio selection. J. Finance 7 (1952) 77-91
32. Michel, R., Kok, M., 2004. Soils and land evaluation using the Desag method for the Noboa and Pajan area, Manabí province, Ecuador. Report Laboratory of Soil Science and Geology. Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 100 pp.
33. Montagnini F., and Nair P.K.R. Carbon sequestration: an underexploited environmental benefit of agroforestry systems. Agroforestry Syst. 61 (2004) 281-295
34. Olschewski R., and Benítez P. Secondary forests as temporary carbon sinks? The economic impact of accounting methods on reforestation projects in the tropics. Ecol. Econ. 55 (2005) 380-394
35. Olschewski R., Benítez P., de Koning G.H.J., and Schlichter T. How attractive are forest carbon sinks? Economic insights into supply and demand of certified emission reductions. J. Forest Econ. 11 (2005) 77-94
36. Olschewski R., Tscharntke T., Benítez P.C., Schwarze S., and Klein A.-M. Economic evaluation of pollination services comparing coffee landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia. Ecol. Soc. 11 1 (2006) 7
37. Oñate J.J., Andersen E., Peco B., and Primdahl J. Agri-environmental schemes and the European agricultural landscapes: the role of indicators as valuing tools for evaluation. Landscape Ecol. 15 (2000) 271-280
38. Pagiola S., Bishop J., and Landell-Mills N. Selling Forest Environmental Services, Market-based Mechanisms for Conservation and Development (2002), Earthscan, London
39. Pattanayak S.K. Valuing watershed services: concepts and empirics from southeast Asia. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 104 (2004) 171-184
40. Perfecto I., Rice R.A., Greenberg R., and Van der Voort M.E. Shade coffee: a disappearing refuge for biodiversity. Bioscience 46 (1996) 598-608
41. Ricketts T.H. Tropical forest fragments enhance pollinator activity in nearby coffee crops. Conserv. Biol. 18 5 (2004) 1262-1271
42. Schoorl J.M., Sonneveld M.P.W., and Veldkamp A. Three-dimensional landscape process modelling: the effect of DEM resolution. Earth Surf. Proc. Landforms 25 (2000) 1025-1034
43. Schoorl J.M., Claessens L., López-Ulloa M., de Koning G.H.J., and Veldkamp A. Geomorphological analysis and scenario modelling in the Noboa-Pajan Area, Manabí Province, Ecuador. Zeitschrift für Geomorphol. Suppl. 145 (2006) 105-118
44. Schroth G., da Fonseca G.A.B., Harvey C.A., Gascon C., Vasconcelos H.L., Isac A.-M.N., Angelsen A., Finegan B., Kaimowitz D., Krauss U., Laurance S.G., Laurance W.F., Nasi R., Naughton-Treves L., Niesten E., Richardson D.M., Somarriba E., Tucker N.I.J., Vincent G., and Wilkie D.S. Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes-A Synthesis (2004), Island Press
45. SICA. III Censo Nacional Agropecuario, Resultados provinciales y cantonales (2002), Instituto Ecuatoriano de Estadísticas y Censos, Manabí. Quito
46. Sierra R. Preliminary Proposal for a Vegetation Classification System for Continental Ecuador (in Spanish) (1999), Proyecto INEFAN/GEF Ecociencia, Quito, Ecuador
47. Stoms D.M., Chomitz K.M., and Davis F.W. TAMARIN: a landscape framework for evaluating economic incentives for rainforest restoration. Landscape Urban Plann. 68 (2004) 95-108
48. Swift M.J., Izac A.M.N., and van Noordwijk M. Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes-are we asking the right questions?. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 104 (2004) 113-134
49. Tilman D. Causes, consequences and ethics of biodiversity. Nature 405 (2000) 208-211
50. Tylianakis J.M., Klein A.-M., and Tscharntke T. Spatiotemporal variation in the diversity of Hymenoptera across a tropical gradient. Ecology 86 (2005) 3296-3302
51. Van Noordwijk M., Poulsen J.P., and Ericksen P.J. Quantifying off-site effects of land use change: filters, flows and fallacies. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 104 (2004) 19-34
52. Wijdeven S.M.J., and Kuzee M.E. Seed availability as a limiting factor in forest recovery processes in Costa Rica. Restor. Ecol. 8 (2000) 414-424
53. Wunder, S., 2005. Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts. CIFOR Occasional Paper No. 42.