Dear ECOLOG-L Subscribers,
Call for Papers: AAG Annual Meeting, 9-13 April 2013
Session Title:*Payments for Ecosystem Services: Paths toward Sustainability*
*Abstract: *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, 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.
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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