Conservation Capital in the Americas
Author: James N. Levitt (United States)Translator: Wu JiayuPublisher: Science Press, 2023 Book Introduction
This book elaborates innovative land conservation financing instruments being implemented across American countries, covering transaction mechanisms and real-world sustainable development practices. It presents seven case studies from North and Latin America to showcase global innovations in conservation finance, including conservation financial tools (Chile and New England), tax-based incentives (Massachusetts Community Preservation Act), private land conservation programs (Chile), conservation and development financing, sustainable development finance, conservation investment banks, and carbon-related ecosystem services.
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About the Author
James N. Levitt
A graduate of Yale School of Management, James N. Levitt currently serves as Director of the International Land Conservation Network (ILCN) at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Research Fellow at Harvard Forest, Donaldson Fellow at Yale School of Management, and Senior Fellow at Highstead, a non-profit land conservation organization in Connecticut. Long focused on innovative practices in land and biodiversity conservation, he founded the International Land Conservation Network in 2014 and has established partnerships with non-governmental and private land conservation organizations across six continents. He has led multiple landmark natural resource conservation and management initiatives and authored numerous articles and monographs on protected areas.
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About the Translator
Wu Jiayu
Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Landscape Architecture, Zhejiang University; Deputy Chair of the Department of Horticulture. Recipient of the Qiushi Young Scholar title at Zhejiang University, winner of the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Peking University, and selected for the 7th Young Talent Support Program of the China Association for Science and Technology. He also holds concurrent research fellow positions at the China Urban Research Center of the University of North Carolina and the Key Laboratory of Territorial Spatial Planning, Development and Protection under the Ministry of Natural Resources.
His core research focuses on urban and rural green space governance. He innovatively constructed an "equity-ecology-health" governance system for green spaces, put forward a three-tier (central-local-community) theoretical framework for realizing the value of green space ecological products for the first time, and pioneered data-driven assessment technologies for green space governance performance. As the first or corresponding author, he has published more than 30 high-level international SSCI papers, several of which are among the top 1% highly cited ESI papers and reprinted by the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China. He has presided over research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Fund.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Core Challenges
1.1 The Rising Significance of Nature Conservation: Chile’s Experience
1.2 Conservation Challenges Faced by New England
Chapter 2 Tax-Related Conservation Instruments
2.1 Massachusetts Community Preservation Act: A Case of Intergovernmental Collaborative Conservation Financing
2.2 Private Land Conservation Programs in Chile
Chapter 3 Limited Development Schemes
3.1 Funding Nature Conservation Through Limited Development Rights
3.2 Restoration of the Caral Archaeological Site and the Supe Valley
Chapter 4 Sustainable Development Finance
4.1 Ecopalms: A Case Study of Specialty Market Development for Certified Non-Timber Forest Products
4.2 Conservation Financing for the Galápagos Islands: Funding the "Missing Middle"
Chapter 5 Conservation Investment Banks
5.1 Rafting in Valdivia: The Valdivia Coastal Protected Area and Other Cases
5.2 Anatomy of a Conservation Lending Program: Experience from a Conservation Lender
Chapter 6 Carbon-Related Ecosystem Services
6.1 ChoCO2 Conservation Carbon Project, Ecuador – Conservación Internacional
6.2 Van Eck Forest: A New Economic Model for Carbon Markets and Forest Sustainability
Chapter 7 Non-Carbon Ecosystem Services
7.1 Ecosystem Service Markets and Restoration of the Dismal Swamp
7.2 Partnering with Landowners to Supply Ecosystem Services: Pioneering Practices in Costa Rica
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