Mountain Forum Bulletin: Payments for Environmental Services in Mountain Areas

OVERVIEW
* Payments for Environmental Services in Mountain Areas: An Overview of the Options and Challenges for Mountain Systems and People

FEATURE ARTICLES
* Payments for Environmental Services: The Need for Redefinition? - Beria Leimona and Rudolf de Groot
* Addressing Equity and Poverty Concerns in Payments for Environmental Services
* Delivering Environmental Services in Landscapes: Experiences with PES through IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
* Can Payments Improve Environmental Services on Farmland?
* Rewards for Environmental Services and Collective Land Tenure: Lessons from Ecuador and Indonesia

INTERVIEW
* Environmental Services, Equity and Productivity: Interview with Dr. Meine van Noordwijk

REGION-SPECIFIC ARTICLES
* Snow Leopards and ‘Himalayan Homestays’: Catalysts for Community-Based Conservation in Mountain Areas
* Khasi Community Landscape Restoration and Conservation Project: Mawhplang Lyngdohship, Meghalaya
* Valuing Water and its Ecological Services in Rural Landscapes: A Case Study from Nepal
* Tourism and Payments for Environmental Services: The Outlook for a Stronger Business Case to Develop Rural Tourism in Bhutan
* Local Government-Led PES for Watershed Protection: Cases from the Philippines
* Using Barren Land for Afforestation: Assessing the Results of the First Registered CDM Forestry Project
* Honeybees as Providers of Pollination Services
* Valuing the Services Provided by Forests and Agro-Ecosystems in the Central Himalaya
* Valuing Environmental Services for Recreation in the Margalla Hills National Park, Islamabad
* Payments for Environmental Services for Sustainable Water Management in Loktak Lake, Manipur
* Payments for Forest Environmental Services in the Dong Nai River Basin, Vietnam
* Using a Biogas Scheme to Control Soil Erosion on Sloping Lands in North Vietnam
* Payments for Carbon Sequestration in the Philippines: Lessons and Implications
* Protecting Environmental Services in Vittel, France: A Business Opportunity for the Private Sector
* The Rhön Biosphere Reserve: Developing New Marketing Strategies to Conserve a Traditional Agricultural Landscape
* Introduction to the SARD-M Project: An Initiative of FAO, Rome for Remuneration of Positive Externalities in Mountain Regions
* Organic Farming: Enhancing Environmental Services from Farmland in Austria
* Payments for the Protection of Watershed Services: A Potential Tool for Improving Protection of ‘Paper Parks’ in Latin America?
* Using Water Funds to Finance Watershed Conservation in the Andes and Costa Rica
* The Cloud Forests of Quillosara: A Local Government Initiative to Establish a Compensation Mechanism for Environmental Services in Ecuador
* Compensation for Hydrological Services in Bolivia: The Comarapa Municipal Water Fund
* A Case of Voluntary Collection for Environmental Services, Zapalinamé, Mexico
* Complementary Environmental Service Reward Programmes for Sustainable Mosaic Landscapes in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico
* Paying for Environmental Services: Using the Contingent Valuation Method to Estimate Willingness to Pay for Conservation in the Sho’llet Forest, Peru
* Conservation of Water Sources in Moyobamba: A Brief Review of the First Experience in Payments for Environmental Services in Peru
* The Voluntary Sandhill (Gopher Tortoise) Habitat Credit Trading System
* Using Payments for Environmental Services to Improve Conservation in a Tunisian Watershed
* From Poachers to Park Wardens: Revenue Sharing Scheme as an Incentive for Environmental
* Protection in Rwanda

BOOK REVIEW
* Can Nepal Benefit from Forest Carbon Financing? An Assessment of Opportunities, Challenges and Possible Actions