Links
Here you can find links to websites with more information about aligning economic forces with conservation, including organizations that focus on life-support systems, information about life-support systems (ecosystem services), examples of economic valuation approaches, existing ecosystem services markets, assessments of the intersection of development and ecosystem services, overviews of modeling and mapping efforts, and sources of potential funding.
General
Organizations that Focus on Life-Support Systems
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
United States Forest Service (USFS)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD)
Nature Valuation and Financing Network
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Resources for the Future (RFF)
Life-Support Systems Background Information
Communicating Ecosystem Services: Fact Sheet
Communicating Ecosystem Services: Tools for Scientists to Engage the Public
“Nature’s Services,” Multimedia Overview (RAND Corporation)
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (United Nations)
Encyclopedia of Earth (Marine Ecosystem Services)
Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS)
Economics
Life-Support System Valuation Approaches, Tools, and Examples
The EcoValue Project (Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont)
Biodiversity Economics (IUCN and WWF)
TruCost Environmental Research Organization
Putting an Economic Value on Wetlands - Concepts, Methods and Considerations
Economic Valuation of Coral Reefs in the Caribbean (WRI)
Economic Valuation and Conservation Finance Related Papers (Conservation Finance Alliance)
Electric Power Research Institute, Water and Ecosystems (EPRI)
Research Triangle Institute Valuation of Nonmarket Goods (RTI)
Land-Water Linkages in Rural Watersheds (FAO)
Environmental Valuation Databases
Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory (Environment Canada)
Envalue (Department of Environment and Conservation, New South Wales, Australia)
ValueBase (Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Sweden)
Non-Market Valuation Database (Lincoln University, New Zealand)
Nature Valuation and Financing Network Case Study Database
Ecosystem Marketplace (Katoomba Group)
The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit
Development and Ecosystem Services
Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES)
Compensation for Ecosystem Services, Rural Poverty and Environment (ICRAF)
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Movie: “Wealth of the Poor: Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty” (WRI)
The Ecosystem Approach Implemented by Local Fishermen in Bocas del Toro, Panama (IUCN)
Modeling & Mapping
Ecosystem Based Management Tools for Coastal and Marine Environments
Mapping Poverty and Ecosystem Services in East Africa (WRI)
Global Poverty Map and Databases of Human Well-being and Poverty (WRI)
Research Triangle Institute Environmental Modeling
Research Triangle Institute Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests (CIFOR)
News & Blogs
Flows - News on Payments for Watershed Services
Society of Environmental Jounalists
Awards & Funding
World Wildlife Fund Fuller Science for Nature Fellowships
Kinship Conservation Fellowships
Society for Conservation Biology Smith Fellowships
Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets Research Grants
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis