Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Market-based Mechanisms for Forest Conservation and Development

Chapter 2: Forest Environmental Services: An Overview

Chapter 3: Paying for Water Services in Central America: Learning from Costa Rica

Chapter 4: Sharing the Benefits of Watershed Management in Sukhomajri, India

Chapter 5: Paying to Protect Watershed Services: Wetland Banking in the United States

Chapter 6: Financing Watershed Conservation: The FONAG Water Fund in Quito, Ecuador

Chapter 7: Selling Biodiversity in a Coffee Cup: Shade-grown Coffee and Conservation in Mesoamerica

Chapter 8: Conserving Land Privately: Spontaneous Markets for Land Conservation in Chile

Chapter 9: Linking Biodiversity Prospecting and Forest Conservation

Chapter 10: Using Fiscal Instruments to Encourage Conservation: Municipal Responses

Chapter 11: Developing a Market for Forest Carbon in British Columbia

Chapter 12: Helping Indigenous Farmers to Participate in the International Market for Carbon Service

Chapter 13: Investing in the Environmental Services of Australian Forests

Chapter 14: Insuring Forest Sinks

Chapter 15: Making Market-based Mechanisms Work for Forests and People