Ecosystem service financing is becoming more and more well-known and accepted, especially from the point of view that it provides a good opportunity to measure ecosystems by measuring the monetary value of its services. A growing body of literature has recently become available on this subject. The NV&F network facilitates and supports dissemination of publications on this subject. You can either:

• Visit our public Publication Database*: The search results will show the abstract and publication details (e.g. author). Due to copyright reasons most publications are only available when you are logged in, for which you need to become a NV&F member (free of charge!). Please send an e-mail to Mishka Stuip: mishka.stuip@fsd.nl to receive a username and password. 
• Visit our internal Publication Database. This database is only accessible if you are a NV&F member. It provides full access to all of the NV&F publications.
• Have a look below at some key publications on ecosystem service financing.

Key Publications

This page contains some key publications in the field of ecosystem service financing. The word key publications is of course subjective to what the NV&F network acknowledges as important publications in the field of science, policy and business activities.

• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Industry. World Resources Institute, Washington DC, USA. See also www.maweb.org
• Landell-Mills, N., Porras, I., 2002. "Silver bullet or fools’ gold? A global review of  markets for forest environmental services and their impact on the poor”. Instruments for sustainable private sector forestry series. International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK.
  
  
• Rosa, H., Kandel, S., Dimas, L., Mendez, E., 2002. Payments for Environmental Services: Lessons from the Americas. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
  
  
• Wunder, S., 2005. Payments for Environmental Services: Some nuts and bolts. Centre for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia
  

Please note that this list of key publications is by far complete. We will do our best to update this list in due course. If you believe a certain publication should be added to this list, please send an e-mail to Ivo Mulder at ivo.mulder@fsd.nl with the reference of the publication.

* Please note that currently (8 March '06) our public Publication Database is not functioning in an optimal way. We will do our very best to fix the problems as quickly as we can. Our aplogies for the the inconvenience.

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