Dear Ecologers,
Please spread the following call to people with interest you know of.
Thanks.
Call for Papers*: AAG Annual Meeting, 8-12 April 2014
*Session Title: *Paths toward Sustainable Payments for Ecosystem Services **
Co-organizers: Li An, Conghe Song, Stephen Crook
Co-chairs: Li An, Xiaodong Chen, Douglas Stow
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are direct incentives paid to
resource users to take actions (or to refrain from previous actions) to
secure ecosystem services such as clean air and water, food, soil
fertility, forest resources, and eco-tourism.Governments, the private
sector, and many non-governmental organizations worldwide invest
billions of dollars each year in PES programs. Despite reported
successes in restoring and conserving ecosystems and their corresponding
services, lack of sustainability has become a serious concern for many
PES programs worldwide; one of the problems is 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. Potential mechanisms for successful (or unsuccessful) PES programs
2. Ecological effects of PES programs (e.g., wildlife habitat or
behavioral change, biodiversity change)
3. Socioeconomic, demographic, and political consequences of PES programs
4. 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, and addressing complexity in PES related coupled
natural and human systems (CNH). 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 the AAG Spatial Analysis and
Modeling group, the Geographical Information Science and Systems group,
and the Human Dimensions of Global Change group. 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 Friday,
November 29 to Stephen Crook (scr...@gmail.com
<mailto:scr...@gmail.com>) and cc to Dr. Li An (l...@mail.sdsu.edu
<mailto:l...@mail.sdsu.edu>).
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Li An (??), PhD
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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