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Wetlandia: June 2012
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Friday, June 29, 2012. The First Wetland Bank. Settle back, kids. It's a great read, representing some outstanding work by the pioneers of the field - and this copy (which was being discarded while I was at EPA) appears to have belonged to David Soileau himself, the FWS field biologist who was the primary author. And ya gotta like the old skule pen sketch on the cover, right? The authors took a cue on this from a federal/st...
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Wetlandia: August 2012
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Friday, August 24, 2012. A report just out. From Resource Media on public communications strategies and "messaging" for ecosystem service policies leans heavily on the fascinating 2010 national opinion survey on "ecosystem services". They're straight up among the most interesting things I've read all year. Anyone with any stake in ecosystem services should read them. Because they're kind of, well, damning. Folks, we are in ...
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Wetlandia: And the Oscar for Ecosystem Services goes to...
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Monday, February 16, 2015. And the Oscar for Ecosystem Services goes to. There's a new French documentary out with the compelling English title of Banking Nature. By Sandrine Feydel and Denis Delestrac. The title in French is a little more clear about the aim at the financialization of nature rather than wetland and habitat banking per se: Nature, the new El Dorado of Finance. However, I'm someone who hated. In the nineteen...
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Wetlandia: Stacking Ecosystem Services
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Monday, February 2, 2015. Given my long hiatus from posting, I should probably devote a full post solely to our article on stacking. Released last year, which has been 5 years in the making. the co-authors are a diverse group including two social scientists, an urban planner, an academic hydrogeomorphologist, a professor of environmental law, and a stream restoration professional. Something about the way we were treating th...
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Wetlandia: Wetlands no longer part of the Public Trust in Wisconsin?
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Friday, July 19, 2013. Wetlands no longer part of the Public Trust in Wisconsin? Holds that certain resources are held in trust by the government for the public good; it comes from English law and was incorporated into Wisconsin's Constitution (Article IX, Section 1) to guarantee that all navigable waters are "common highways and forever free". See the WisDNR's page on it, with a great documentary, here. Is Wisconsin going ...
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Wetlandia: July 2012
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Thursday, July 26, 2012. Two reports brought to me courtesy of the Society for Ecological Restoration. The re-wetting of peat bogs. In Ireland that had been used for the industrial production of peat fuel is being examined for its carbon sequestration value. Up to 30,000 acres could be re-wetted over the next 20 years, but the characterization of carbon fluxes has yet to be done. Ohio State's Bill Mitch is reporting. I find...
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Wetlandia: January 2014
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Stacking Ecosystem Services is real, again. You may be familiar with the concept of ecosystem service "stacking" - if not, read Alice Kenny's wonderful piece. Not stacked: while each parcel can. Contain either ESA species credits and wetland credits, when a parcel is used to compensate for wetland impacts, it then becomes ineligible to compensate for ESA impacts. This is not stacking. In the nin...
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Wetlandia: August 2013
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Thursday, August 15, 2013. Jimmy Carter and the Archaeology of Market Environmentalism, Part II. So it turns out that Jimmy Carter was quite the market-warrior. The step or stage between the dreams of RFF in the 1960s and the implementation of wetland and air markets in the 1980s is a bit of a missing link - a kind of Australopithecus afarensis. As I said in the last post. A bit later, the USFWS' Edward LaRoe mentioned at a...
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Wetlandia: But is it really Stacking?
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. But is it really Stacking? In an effort to provide some conceptual clarity to the realm of stacking, myself and 5 other authors put out a paper in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Last March called " Stacking Ecosystem Services. Faced with a multitude of definitions of stacking, we broke it down this way:. Selling the same ecosystem service credit, however defined, multiple times. Be tran...
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Wetlandia: February 2015
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Ecosystem services, wetlands, carbon, geography, economics and nature. That's it. Monday, February 16, 2015. And the Oscar for Ecosystem Services goes to. There's a new French documentary out with the compelling English title of Banking Nature. By Sandrine Feydel and Denis Delestrac. The title in French is a little more clear about the aim at the financialization of nature rather than wetland and habitat banking per se: Nature, the new El Dorado of Finance. However, I'm someone who hated. Released last y...
