Making Markets Pay for Stewardship
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| Author(s) | Shilling, J. Osha, J. |
| Date | February 2002 |
| Reference type | Paper |
| Publisher | WWF |
Summary
Some of the most promising ways to bring about rural poverty alleviation and conservation around the world involve innovative ways to increase the control that the rural poor can exercise over their natural resource base and to pay them for their sustainable stewardship of environmental functions and services. These approaches can make use of market instruments through innovative ways of valuing environmental goods and services, establishing exchange arrangements, and expanding the use of traditional common property practices like common-pool assets regimes that are particularly appropriate for the sustainable management of natural resources, and delivery of environmental services. Exciting new experiences have resulted from creative actions by committed communities, governments, civil society and NGOs, and businesses. What is needed now is to expand their use, and improve the enabling frameworks needed for their success. To this end, this paper presents recent experiences and a conceptual framework on which to base a set of actions at national and international level that NGOs and aid agencies may want to pursue.
Themes
Market-based Approaches
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http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/making_markets_pay_for_stewardship