Dear Ecologers,
Please spread the following call to people with interest you know of.
Thanks.
Call for Papers: AAG Annual Meeting, 21-25 April 2015
*Session Title: *Payments for Ecosystem Services: Paths toward
Sustainability**
Co-organizers: Li An, Conghe Song, Xiaodong Chen, Stephen Crook
Co-chairs: Li An, Conghe Song, Xiaodong Chen, Richard Bilsborrow
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are direct incentives paid to
resource users to take certain actions, or refrain from them, to secure
ecosystem services, such as clean air, clean water, fertile soil,
forests, and eco-tourism.Government entities, the private sector, and
non-governmental organizations worldwide invest billions of dollars each
year in PES programs. Despite reported successes in restoring and
conserving ecosystems and their corresponding services, lack of
sustainability has become a serious concern for many PES programs
worldwide. An emerging problem is that PES participants may return to
their previous behavioral patterns when payments end.This session will
explore possible pathways toward PES sustainability, including
addressing the complex and sometimes reciprocal relationships between
PES programs and related socioeconomic, demographic, and environmental
systems. We particularly encourage research that addresses theoretical,
methodological, or empirical issues related to (but not limited to) the
following topics:
1. Potential mechanisms for successful (or unsuccessful) PES programs;
2. Socioeconomic, demographic, and political consequences of PES programs;
3. Methodological issues: collection of qualitative and quantitative
data related to PES, data analysis and modeling, applications of GIS
techniques and spatial statistics, integration of multidisciplinary or
multi-scale data, and addressing complexity in PES related coupled
natural and human (CNH) systems. Analyses using similar integrated
frameworks including coupled human and natural systems (CHANS),
social-ecological systems, or social-environmental systems are also
welcome.
This session (sessions) is co-sponsored by the AAG Spatial Analysis and
Modeling group, the Geographical Information Science and Systems group,
and the Human Dimensions of Global Change group. To be considered for
the sessions:
1. Please register and submit your abstract online following the AAG
Guidelines (http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting); and
2. Please send your paper title, PIN, and abstract no later than
Wednesday, November 20, to:
Dr. Li An ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) & Stephen Crook
([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>)
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
Dr. Conghe Song ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>)
Dr. Xiaodong Chen ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>)
Department of Geography
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thanks,
LI
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Li An (??), PhD
Professor
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~lian/ (Personal website)
http://complexity.sdsu.edu/ (Group Website)
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