Water quality trading is continually being explored and implemented to improve water quality in many parts of the world. They are being used to cost-effectively reduce point and/or non-point source obligations to meet water quality goals such as nutrient discharge limits. A comparison between...

Agricultural practices continue to degrade water quality and ecosystems worldwide. In the United States, programs like the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) target the voluntary adoption of agricultural best management practices (BMPs). Demand...

In response to the growing awareness of climate change across the globe, innovative conservationists have begun employing market approaches to capture the true value of carbon emissions and encourage sequestration. The most widespread mechanism used to date, both domestically and...

Integrated Landscape Approaches for Africa’s Drylands presents emerging findings on the importance of moving beyond single-sector interventions to embrace integrated landscape management that takes into account the health of the ecosystems that support human livelihoods and contribute to the...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Objective, Audience, and Key Questions -- Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework -- Introduction -- Defining Integrated Landscape Management -- Resilience and Integrated...