Market-Based Instruments for Ecosystem Services: Institutional Innovation or Renovation?

Valérie Boisvert, Philippe Méral, Géraldine Froger · 2013 · Society & Natural Resources

Summary. Market-based instruments for ecosystem services have proliferated globally, but their actual institutional design varies widely from their theoretical promise. This paper examines payments for environmental services and biodiversity offsets—both labeled as market-based instruments—and finds significant gaps between the pro-market rhetoric surrounding these policies and their actual implementation. The instruments are less genuinely innovative than claimed and take diverse institutional forms depending on local context.

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  title   = {Market-Based Instruments for Ecosystem Services: Institutional Innovation or Renovation?},
  author  = {Valérie Boisvert and Philippe Méral and Géraldine Froger},
  journal = {Society & Natural Resources},
  year    = {2013},
  doi     = {10.1080/08941920.2013.820815},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2013.820815}
}

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DOI

10.1080/08941920.2013.820815

Countries

Switzerland, France

Regions

Europe

Categories

policy, climate-and-environment, general-innovation

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2026-04-28