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标题：Payment for ecosystem services: possible instrument for managing ecosystem services in Nepal
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作者：Laxmi D Bhatta ; Bob Eric Helmuth van Oort ; Ieva Rucevska 等
期刊名称：Ecosystems and People
印刷版ISSN：2639-5908
电子版ISSN：2639-5916
出版年度：2014
卷号：10
期号：4
页码：289-299
DOI：10.1080/21513732.2014.973908
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：Payment for ecosystem services (PESs) is part of a new and more direct conservation and management paradigm explicitly recognizing: (1) the need to bridge the interests of communities connected by ecosystems, (2) the costs of securing and maintaining the provision of different ecosystem services and (3) that those who benefit from these services need to pay for these costs. While discussions on the potential of PES are becoming more frequent, Nepal lacks concrete policies and an umbrella legislative framework at the national, sub-national, and institutional levels to operationalize PES. A lack of vertical and horizontal coordination among government departments and agencies often creates problems at the implementation level.This paper discusses PES as a possible instrument to finance ecosystem management in Nepal, based on lessons learnedfrom various ongoing PES-type schemes. We review a number of such schemes based on the available literature and keyinformant surveys in selected PES pilot sites. We argue that PES experience in Nepal remains limited and is as yetinsufficient as basis for mainstreaming. We recommend that (1) existing schemes need to be monitored to analyzechallenges and effectiveness, and (2) such analyses should be carried out simultaneously with informing the national policydialog to support the debate on implementing PES for sustainable ecosystem management.
关键词：PES;policy framework;local level mechanism;ecosystem services;sustainability