Tourism-Related Pay for Environmental Services: An Important Tool for Environmental Management

Abstract:

Ecosystem accounts a lot to human survival and development. Ecological / environmental services has become an important part of the whole economic system functioning. Thus, from the perspective of environmental fairness and environmental controversies, pay for environmental services has become an important tool of acknowledging ecological capital and solving environmental problems. With the development of tourism, tourism-related pay for environmental services also entered the perspective of researchers and practitioners. Tourism-related pay for environmental services becomes the priority areas for the implementation of pay for environmental services because of its relatively clear property rights, clear beneficiaries, and strong capacity of payment. At the same time, Tourism-related pay for environmental services becomes the focus of enhancing the efficiency of pay for environmental services because tourism has become an important way to ecological construction and solve problems of livelihoods of local communities. This paper first proposed definition of tourism-related pay for environmental services, and then examines the standards of pay for environmental services that remains the key issue of pay for environmental services. The purpose of the paper is to provide intellectual support for the implementation of important environmental management tools.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 908)
• Pages: 359-365
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.908.359
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Min Liu, Ai Li Liu*
• Keywords: Compensation Standard, Pay for Environmental Services (PES), Tourism-Related Pay for Environmental Services (TPES)

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