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标题：REDD and PINC: A new policy framework to fund tropical forests as global 'eco-utilities'
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作者：M R Trivedi ; A W Mitchell ; N Mardas 等
期刊名称：IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
印刷版ISSN：1755-1307
电子版ISSN：1755-1315
出版年度：2009
卷号：8
DOI：10.1088/1755-1315/8/1/012005
出版社：IOP Publishing
摘要：Tropical forests are 'eco-utilities' providing critical ecosystem services that underpin food, energy, water and climate security at local to global scales. Currently, these services are unrecognised and unrewarded in international policy and financial frameworks, causing forests to be worth more dead than alive. Much attention is currently focused on REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) and A/R (Afforestation and Reforestation) as mitigation options. In this article we propose an additional mechanism – PINC (Proactive Investment in Natural Capital) – that recognises and rewards the value of ecosystem services provided by standing tropical forests, especially from a climate change adaptation perspective. Using Amazonian forests as a case study we show that PINC could improve the wellbeing of rural and forest-dependent populations, enabling them to cope with the impacts associated with climate change and deforestation. By investing pro-actively in areas where deforestation pressures are currently low, the long-term costs of mitigation and adaptation will be reduced. We suggest a number of ways in which funds could be raised through emerging financial mechanisms to provide positive incentives to maintain standing forests. To develop PINC, a new research and capacity-building agenda is needed that explores the interdependence between communities, the forest eco-utility and the wider economy.
关键词：¹ Global Canopy Programme, John Krebs Field Station, Wytham, Oxford, OX2 8QJ, UK
² University of Queensland, The Ecology Centre, Queensland 4072, Australia
³ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, INPA, Escritório Regional do INPA, São José dos Campos, 12227-010, Brazil
⁴ To whom correspondence should be addressed