This book shows how economic instruments can be used to incentivize the conservation of marine and coastal resources.

Essam Yassin Mohammed is an Environmental Economist at the International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK.

Foreword Prof U. Rashid Sumaila Foreword Camilla Toulmin 1. Introduction 2. Using Valuation to Make the Case for PCMES: Promoting Investments in Marine and Coastal Ecosystems as Development Infrastructure 3. Promoting Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Functions through Direct Economic Incentives: the Case for Multilevel Good Governance 4. Payments for Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services and the Governance of Common Pool Natural Resources 5. Integrated Payments for Ecosystem Services: a Governance Path from Lakes and Rivers to Coastal Areas in China 6. Payments for Marine Ecosystem Services and Food Security: Lessons from Income Transfer Programmes 7. Allocation of Fishing Rights to Support Local Fishermen in South Africa's Western Cape 8. Economic and Non-economic Conditions Affecting Sustainable Aquaculture: Why Don't Small Shrimp Producers Participate in Organic Certification Schemes? 9. Could Payment for Environmental Services Reconcile Fish Conservation with Small-scale Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon? 10. Payments for Hilsa Fish (Tenualosa ilisha) Conservation in Bangladesh 11. Payments to Landholders for Managing Water, Land and Ecosystem (WLE) Services in Coastal Agricultural Catchments for Protecting the Great Barrier Reef 12. Africa's Mangrove Habitats: Prospects and Challenges of Payment for Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services 13. Economic Instruments for Sustainability in Mexico's Marine Protected Areas and the Perverse Subsidy Challenge