The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services From Regulation
This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predi
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Philipp Aerni
The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services From Regulation to Innovation
CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
Series Editors Samuel O. Idowu, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Rene´ Schmidpeter, Cologne Business School, Germany
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Philipp Aerni
The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services From Regulation to Innovation
Philipp Aerni Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS) University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
ISSN 2196-7075 ISSN 2196-7083 (electronic) CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance ISBN 978-3-319-19344-1 ISBN 978-3-319-19345-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19345-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015945024 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgements
This book started as a series of working papers drafted during my time at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy, from May 2012 to September 2013. At that time, I was coordinating a project titled ‘Remuneration of Positive Externalities/Payments for Ecosystem Services (RPE/PES) in the Food and Agricultural Sectors’. While I was based in Rome, I continued to obtain my salary from ETH Zurich, which was asked to by the Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture (FOAG), the main donor of the project, to head the project coordination team under the guidance of an FAO Steering Committee and the supervision of the former FAO Natural Resources Management and Environment Department. I started the project by having several bilateral meetings with FAO-based experts on PES. I was quite familiar with the RPE/PES system in Switzerland, which was based on the concept of multifunctional
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