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Economic and Environmental Sustainability: Working with New
Partners and IncentivesFrank Casey, Ph.D
Conservation Economics Program
Defenders of Wildlife
Conference of the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association
Washington, DC. March 3, 2009
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Cooperative Conservation • Marketplace for Nature
• Conservation Registry
• Other Partnership Options
• Why Do It?
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Cooperative Conservation Activities
It Can Be Done• California Rangeland Conservation
Coalition
• Willamette Partnership
• North Carolina “Inner” Banks
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Ecosystem Service Markets
• Climate, water, and gas regulation
• Water supply, nutrient supply
• Soil formation, nutrient cycling
• Waste management, biological control
• Wildlife habitat, food production
• Recreation, cultural and scenic values
• Provisioning services
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What is an ecosystem marketplace?• System for buying and selling
ecosystem services • Wetland and conservation banks • Offset, or cap-and-trade
programs• Voluntary transactions
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Why an ecosystem marketplace? • Doubled population by 2020• Habitat loss and fragmentation• Climate change, water shortages, endangered species
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Why?Existing programs are not enough:• 100% compliance is not enough• Regulations are unevenly applied• Investments are scattered and
piecemeal
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Marketplace for Nature• Try to capture multiple values
• Buyers needed
• Conservation opportunity areas exist: state wildlife action plans
• Rules of the game: Federal Office of Ecosystem Services and Marketing
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Essential elements of the Marketplace for Nature1. Ecologically effective2. Address multiple values3. Strategic investment at
landscape scale4. Transparent and credible to public5. Accessible with low transaction
costs
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What is the Conservation Registry?
• An online, centralized database
• Tracks and maps conservation projects across the landscape
• Synthesis and project management tool
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The Registry captures . . .Three categories of actions:
• Habitat Restoration and Management• Enhanced Conservation Status• Monitoring, Education and Research
Projects can be:• Proposed, in progress, completed and
ongoing management projects
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Conservation Registry home page: www.conservationregistry.org
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Other Areas for Conservation Partnerships
Control of Invasive Species
2009 Economic Stimulus: Matching Gray with Green
Economic Valuation of Conservation Benefits• Open space property values premium• Wetland conservation
Threatened and endangered species conservation • Recreational use and values: hunting, fishing, wildlife
viewing http://www.defenders.org/programs_and_policy/science_and_econo
mics/conservation_economics/valuation/benefits_toolkit.php
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Resources• Ecosystem services benefits valuation toolkit/models
http://www.defenders.org/programs_and_policy/science_and_economics/conservation_economics/index.php
• Florida Ranchlands Environmental Services Project: http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/globalmarkets/agriculture/FRESP.html
• Willamette Partnership: http://www.williamettepartnership.org/tools-templates. Countingontheenvironment.pdwiki.com
• National Working Group on Ecosystem Services Valuation: [email protected]
• Parametrix, Inc. EcoMetrix: Environmental Services Accounting: [email protected]
• Pinchot Institute: http://pinchot.org/current_projects/baybank
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Why Partnerships
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But Importantly
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THANK YOU
Frank Casey - [email protected] Sara Vickerman – [email protected]
Conservation Economics Program Defenders of Wildlife