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Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Challenge of Saving Nature

Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Challenge of Saving Nature In a seminal and underappreciated book, Green Imperialism , Grove (1995) explains the rise of a global environmental consciousness as a result of European colonial expansion. Grove details how, by the mid‐seventeenth century, “… a coherent and relatively organized awareness of the ecological impact of the demands of emergent capitalism and colonial rule started to develop, to grow into a fully fledged understanding of the limited nature of the earth's natural resources and to stimulate a concomitant awareness of a need for conservation” (p. 6). In particular he documents the growing belief that loss of forests, particularly in island settings, could negatively affect shipping, agriculture, and even the local climate. The colonial powers awoke to the importance of what today would be called ecosystem services and set about trying to restore them and diminish their further degradation. In recent decades humankind's reliance on the natural world has increasingly been expressed through the concept of ecosystem services. In the time period covered by Grove, ecosystem services were seen as vital for maintaining the economic output of the colonies. Today they are judged important as a way of framing conservation imperatives to convince humans of the value of the natural http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Conservation Biology Wiley

Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Challenge of Saving Nature

Redford, Kent H.; Adams, William M.
Conservation Biology , Volume 23 (4) – Aug 1, 2009
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©2009 Society for Conservation Biology
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0888-8892
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1523-1739
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10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01271.x
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In a seminal and underappreciated book, Green Imperialism , Grove (1995) explains the rise of a global environmental consciousness as a result of European colonial expansion. Grove details how, by the mid‐seventeenth century, “… a coherent and relatively organized awareness of the ecological impact of the demands of emergent capitalism and colonial rule started to develop, to grow into a fully fledged understanding of the limited nature of the earth's natural resources and to stimulate a concomitant awareness of a need for conservation” (p. 6). In particular he documents the growing belief that loss of forests, particularly in island settings, could negatively affect shipping, agriculture, and even the local climate. The colonial powers awoke to the importance of what today would be called ecosystem services and set about trying to restore them and diminish their further degradation. In recent decades humankind's reliance on the natural world has increasingly been expressed through the concept of ecosystem services. In the time period covered by Grove, ecosystem services were seen as vital for maintaining the economic output of the colonies. Today they are judged important as a way of framing conservation imperatives to convince humans of the value of the natural

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