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Call for Papers: AAG Annual Meeting, 9-13 April 2013
*Session Title: *Payments for Ecosystem Services: Paths toward
Sustainability**
Co-organizers: Li An, Alex Zvoleff, and Sarah Wandersee
Co-chairs: Li An, Douglas Stow
Many important ecosystem services have been degraded as a result of
human activities. Even services derived from so-called protected areas
are not immune to these threats. Indeed, much debate surrounds the topic
of the most effective approaches to conservation. One approach has been
to provide compensation to the parties protecting them in the form of
payments for ecosystem services (PES).To counteract forces of
degradation, governments, the private sector, and non-governmental
organizations worldwide invest billions of dollars each year in PES
programs that provide incentives to resource users to take actions that
sustain ecosystem services (or to refrain from taking actions that
threaten ecosystem services). Despite reported successes in restoring
and preserving ecosystems and their corresponding services such as clean
air and water, food, soil fertility, forest resources, and eco-tourism,
long-term PES program sustainability remains uncertain. PES lack of
sustainability can arise from many reasons, one being that PES
participants may return to their previous behavioral patterns when
payments end.
This session will explore possible pathways toward PES sustainability,
addressing the complex reciprocal relationships between PES programs and
corresponding socioeconomic, demographic, and environmental systems. We
particularly encourage review and research articles to address
theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues related to (but not
limited to) the following topics:
1. Land use or land cover change associated with PES programs
2. Ecological effects of PES programs (e.g., wildlife habitat or
behavioral change)
3. Potential mechanisms for success/failure observed in current PES programs
4. Socioeconomic, demographic, and political consequences of PES programs
5. Methodological issues: collection of qualitative and quantitative
data related to PES, data analysis and modeling, application of GIS
techniques and spatial statistics, integration of multidisciplinary and
multi-scale data, etc.
6. Complexity in coupled natural and human systems (CNH) arising from
PES programs (e.g., feedback, nonlinearity, time lags). Analyses using
similar integrated frameworks including coupled human and natural
systems (CHANS), social-ecological systems, or social-environmental
systems are also welcome.
This session (sessions) is co-sponsored by multiple AAG Specialty
Groups: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Spatial Analysis and
Modeling, Human Dimensions of Global Change, and China Geography. To be
considered for the sessions:
1. Please register and submit your abstract online following the AAG
Guidelines (http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting); and
2. Please send your paper title, PIN, and abstract no later than
Wednesday, October 20 to Dr. Li An (l...@mail.sdsu.edu
<mailto:l...@mail.sdsu.edu>), Sarah Wandersee (wande...@rohan.sdsu.edu
<mailto:wande...@rohan.sdsu.edu>), and Alex Zvoleff
(azvol...@mail.sdsu.edu <mailto:azvol...@mail.sdsu.edu>).
Li
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Li An, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~lian/ (Personal website)
http://complexity.sdsu.edu/ (Group Website)
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