Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: governing the provision of ecosystem services / Laura Rival and Roldan Muradian -- 2. Managing tropical forest ecosystem services: an overview of options / Jan Börner and Stephen A. Vosti -- 3. Partnerships in global governance: the growth of a procedural norm without substance? / Teresa Kramarz -- 4. Ecosystem services and payments for environmental services: two sides of the same coin? / Denis Pesche, Philippe Méral, Marie Hrabanski and Marie Bonnin -- 5. Property rights and government involvement in market-like biodiversity conservation: an empirical analysis of bioprospecting / Per M. Stromberg, Unai Pascual and Claudia Ituarte-Lima -- 6. Political transformation and watershed governance in Java: actors and interests / Martin Christian Lukas -- 7. Watershed development, decentralisation and institutional change: insights from the mechanism design theory / Jayanath Ananda -- 8. Sharing the costs and benefits of marine protected areas: implications for good coastal resource governance / Maria Zita Toribio, Hazel O. Arceo and Porfirio Aliño -- 9. Indigenous development through payments for environmental services in Arnhem Land, Australia: a critical analysis / Nanni Concu -- 10. A nested institutional approach for managing bundle ecosystem services: experience from managing Satoyama landscapes in Japan / Makiko Yashiro, Anantha Duraiappah and Nicolas Kosoy -- 11. Institutional and historical analysis of payments for ecosystem services in Madagascar / Cécile Bidaud, Philippe Méral, Fano Andriamahefazafy, Georges Serpantié, Louison Cahen-Fourot, and Aurélie Toiller -- 12. The governance of Costa Rica's programme of payments for environmental services: a stakeholder's perspective / Jean-Francois Le Coq, Géraldine Froger, Thomas Legrand, Denis Pesche and Fernando Saenz-Segura -- 13. Governance across multiple levels of agri-environmental measures in France / Caroline Maury, Xavier Augusseau, Olivier Aznar, Muriel Bonin, Philippe Bonnal, William's Daré. Mélanie Décamps, Philippe Jeanneaux, and Armelle Caron -- 14. Indigenous protected areas in Australia: the importance of geophysical and institutional scale in assessing their effectiveness for biodiversity conservation / Nanni Concu and Katherine May -- 15. Governing forests for provisioning services: the example of honey production in Southwest Ethiopia / K. Freerk Wiersum and Tefera Belay Endalamaw -- 16. Investing in sustainable use of biodiversity for social benefit in Brazil / Peter H. May and Valéria da Vinha -- 17. Integrating agroecology with payments for ecosystem services in Santa Catarina's Atlantic Forest / Abdon Schmitt, Joshua Farley, Juan Alvez, Gisele Alarcon and Paola May Rebollar -- 18. Towards an institutional approach to payments for ecosystem services: perspectives from two Nicaraguan cases / Gert Van Hecken, Johan Bastiaensen and Frédéric Huybrechs -- 19. A policy mix to finance protected areas in Mato Grosso, Brazil / João Andrade, Peter H. May and Paula Bernasconi -- 20. Forest carbon credits generation in Brazil: the case of small farmers / Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro, Laércio Antônio Gonçalves Jacovine and Mariana Barbosa Vilar -- 21. Carbon sequestration projects in Peruvian tropical forests / Teresa Rojas Lara and Thomas Berger -- 22. On-farm tree planting in Ghana's high forest zone: the need to consider carbon payments / Thomas F. G. Insaidoo, Mirjam A. F. Ros-Tonen and Emmanuel Acheampong -- 23. Ecosystem services and environmental governance: some concluding remarks / Roldan Muradian and Laura Rival.