Paying for Restoration
Background
The authors examine the payments for ecosystem services and review strategies for funding ecological restoration. They do so by conducting a literature review that is focused on two main questions: "how should ecological and economic considerations be balanced in determining expenditures on restoration projects? how is society going to pay for the substantial costs involved?"
Conclusions & TakeawaYs
The article concludes with a discussion on other considerations that need to be made when developing strategies to pay for restoration, namely uncertainty, time‐scale, evaluating success, and regional planning.
Reference:
. Paying for Restoration. Restoration Ecology. 2000;8:260–267. doi:10.1046/j.1526-100x.2000.80037.x.
Affiliation:
- Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
- Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, U.S.A.