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Title
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Payments for Environmental Services as an Innovative Mechanism to Finance Adaptation Measures to Climate Change in Ghana
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Subtitle
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Author
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Staiss, Chr. et al.
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Editor or Organisation
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SLE
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Year
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2008
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Keywords
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Stakeholder Analysis, Biodiversity, Ecological Transects, Non Timber Forest Products, Land Use Rights, Agro-forestry, Farmers, Traditional Authorities, Fundingmechanisms, Buyer and Provider, Potentials and Constraints
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Country
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Ghana
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Type
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good practice
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Language
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English
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Table of Contents
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1 Introduction
2 Materials and methods
2.1 Study site
2.2 Overview of methods
2.3 Sampling
2.4 Ecological field study
2.5 Focus group discussions
2.6 Semi-structured interviews
2.7 Stakeholder Analysis
3 Findings and discussion
3.1 National institutional framework
3.2 Local institutional framework
3.3 Environmental Services
3.4 Assessment of the ecological intactness for pricing and monitoring of environmental services
3.5 Provider and land use change
3.6 Buyer and funding
3.7 Institutional arrangements
4 Recommendations
5 Outlook
6 Bibliography
Annex
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Abstract
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In our study we conducted a general assessment of the institutional framework and
key stakeholders on national level and a local case study in order to analyse and evaluate the main components (potential environmental services, providers, buyers, and the local institutional framework) of a PES scheme. The study site for our local case study on biodiversity-related PES was the fringe area of the Ankasa Conservation Area (ACA) in the south-western region of Ghana. The ACA belongs to the Upper Guinean Rainforest, one of the remaining biodiversity hotspots. For our data collection, we randomly selected 14 spots in the forest fringes of the ACA to conduct focus group discussions and ecological assessment. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with key stakeholders on local and national level.
Our findings indicated that PES itself is already discussed by state and non-state stakeholders. But there is a lack of interest in conservation issues in Ghana.
The promotion of economic sectors like the cocoa and timber industry competes with
the goals of a biodiversity related PES scheme. We also assessed a lack of awareness about the contribution of forests to adaptation to climate change and missing coordination between stakeholders in adaptation processes. However, there is awareness on the connection between intact forest ecosystems and livelihoods of the local population.
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Permission
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Yes
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Category
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Economics
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