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Ecosystem Services in plantations: from economic
valuations to market-based instruments
New Generation Plantations Annual ...

Economic evaluation of ecosystem goods and services
under different landscape management scenarios

Study landscape background
 Australian landscapes are changing due to changing demands of
society and climate change and ...

Background – policy context
 Bold, strategic and landscape-scale
initiatives are required to reverse
the land degradation...

Study aims
 Identify and define the plausible future land use scenarios
 Identify and assess the key ecosystem services ...

Study area and major land use categories
• Largely degraded from clearing of native
vegetation for agriculture as well as ...

Timber
Methods: key research steps
Step I
• Collate spatial and attribute data
• Land use and land cover classification
• ...

Plausible future land use scenarios
 Business-as-usual
• current farming and management systems continue with no signific...

Timber
Methods: tools and resources
Water
Bush tender payments

Calculation - example
NPV is the net present value ($/ha)
P is the price of carbon,
Qt is the quantity of CO2e sequestrate...

Returns from Carbon under various scenarios
-$50 $0 $50 $100 $150 $200 $250
1%
3%
5%
7%
10%
NPV $/ha
Discountrate
Conserva...

Returns from carbon +environmental payments
-$50 $0 $50 $100 $150 $200 $250
1%
3%
5%
7%
10%
NPV $/ha
Discountrate
Conserva...

Returns from Timber Plantations
-$6,000 -$4,000 -$2,000 $0 $2,000 $4,000 $6,000 $8,000 $10,000 $12,000
1%
3%
5%
7%
10%
NPV...

EGS trend under various scenarios
Land use scenarios
Ecosystem Services
Carbon Agri prodn Water Biodiversity Timber
Busine...

Conclusions
 Against any realistic investment criteria returns from carbon alone
may not be commercially attractive in th...

Conclusions
 Business-as-Usual and Abandoned Land Use are not a sustainable
solutions the for future as they lead to a de...

Acknowledgements
 Contributors
• Dr. S Kasel, Melbourne School of Land and Environment
• Prof. RJ Keenan, Melbourne Schoo...

Another economic approach to plantations:
Market-based instruments for ES

THE ‘DISCOVERY’ OF A NEW GALAXY

With assumed strengths…
Economic signals more effective and flexible
Better resource allocation and efficiency
Filling the...

… but also lots of confusion
Inconsistent use of terms
Mis-information of policy-makers
An impediment to policy evaluation

1. Direct markets (e.g. NTFPs for conservation)
2. Tradable permits (e.g. transferable development rights, carbon
markets)...

Broad range of analytical approaches:
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Local case-
study (ex-post)
Case-study on
national
mechanism
...

Broad range of evaluation criteria:
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Efficiency
Environmental effectiveness
Equity
Feasibility
F...

Payments for Ecosystem Services
2.3%
7%
4.7%
34.9%
20.9%
0%
30.2%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%

Do PES improve governance of reforestation?
Two Indonesian cases

General implications of relying on PES
Establishment of multi-stakeholder agencies as intermediary bodies
between funder a...

Results from case studies
Evaluation procedures for the internal governance of farmer groups are
necessary
Multi-stakehold...

Converging results from previous researches
Governance needs to complement economic tools to achieve outcomes
- Impacts of...

CIFOR Planted forests initiative
- Stakeholders’ perceptions and expectations;
- Labor issues;
- Conflict mediation;
- Com...

Further reading
Pirard R., de Buren, and R. Lapeyre, 2014, Do PES improve governance of forest
restoration?, Forests, 5 (3...

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