Dear ECOLOG-L Subscribers:
If you plan to attend the 2017 AAG meeting at Boston and have a paper
related to the following session, please consider joining the following
session and contact Drs. Song and An at cs...@email.unc.edu and
l...@mail.sdsu.edu:
The welfare of the society depends on an array of services provided
by the ecosystems, such as conservation of soil and water, provision of
food and fiber by forests et cetera. At the same time, human activities
can drastically change the settings of the natural environment,
adversely affecting the vital goods and services that natural ecosystems
provide. Many of the ecosystem services were considered as common goods,
suffering the tragedy of the commons. Since the 1980s, a new
market-based mechanism, payments for ecosystem services (PES), started
to be widely adopted to conserve the vital ecosystem services. Under
this mechanism, economic incentives are provided to ecosystem services
providers to undertake actions that produce desired environmental
benefits. There are many successful examples of such programs as well
as some not so successful ones. These programs not only directly
influence the socioeconomic dynamics for the people living in the
affected areas and the structure and function of the natural ecosystems,
but also alter the relationships between humans and their environment,
such as land use restrictions. Understanding where and how the programs
work, and where and why the programs do not work are critical for the
success of future PES programs. In this session, we call for papers that
investigate how PES programs impacted the dynamics of the coupled
natural and human systems. Specifically, the topics could include:
(1) PES influence on the dynamics in the human systems, such as
land use decision, labor allocation, human migration decision et cetera.
(2) PES influence on the dynamics of the natural systems, such as
the composition and configuration changes, ecosystem services changes
(e.g., carbon storage, enhancement of habitat quality for wildlife, soil
and water conservation).
(3) The dynamic feedbacks from the natural system to the human
system, such as change of livelihood strategies as a result of a change
in the ecosystem services after the implementation of a particular PES
program.
Session Chairs: Conghe Song and Li An.
Best,
Li
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Li An, PhD
Professor of Geography
http://complexities.org
