Special Issue "Payment for Ecosystem Services, Environmental Taxation and Environmental Management: Cases from Evidence Based Policy Making and Global to Local Benefit Sharing Schemes"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Ryo Kohsaka
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Department of Social and Human Environment, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Furo-cho Chikusa-ku D2-1, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
Interests: resource management; forest policy; ecological economics
Dr. Yuta Uchiyama
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Guest Editor
Department of Social and Human Environment, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Furo-cho Chikusa-ku D2-1, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
Interests: urban regional management; GIS; tourism management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite researchers in the fields of rural development, environmental economics, agriculture and forestry sciences, urban/agricultural planning, and ecology with a multidisciplinary approach to submit papers to this Special Issue.

We welcome submissions on sustainable management of consumption and production of forest and agricultural resources. The theoretical topics will include payment for ecosystem services (PES), environmental taxation, forest transition, pollution removal, valuations, relational values for communities, and benefit sharing schemes, such as geographical indications (GIs) and environmental taxation in the tourism sectors. Those schemes are related to traditional ecological knowledge that is embedded in local places and relational values. We highlight innovative approached including market mechanism and institutional right-based approaches that enable benefit sharing both from global and local perspectives in the era of transitions. The interlinkages of drivers are foreseen to be examined in light of resource changes with populational, social, and economic changes (such as empirical applicability of environmental Kuznets curves or forest transitions). Emerging concepts such as nature’s contribution to people (NCP) and the interactions of material and nonmartial contributions are also examined in their complementarity to ecosystem services. In terms of sustainable consumption and production, we will focus on the targets and indicators of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and post-2020 Biodiversity Targets.

Furthermore, we include in the scope rural areas and urban areas, where different types of policies and actions for sustainable resource management are implemented. The resilience of local communities which produce forestry and agricultural products depends on the networks of production and consumption. Considering the transformative changes in rural and urban areas in the different regions of the world, the innovative schemes for resource managements are highlighted in this Special Issue, in addition to existing institutions such as product-level GIs and landscape-level agricultural heritage and related regional designations such as the UNESCO Heritage Systems, globally important agricultural heritage systems (GIAHS), the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), and other measures.

Prof. Dr. Ryo Kohsaka
Dr. Yuta Uchiyama
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Innovative financial mechanism
  • Environmental tax
  • Product branding
  • Place
  • Benefit sharing
  • Traditional ecological knowledge

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A 10-year Analysis on the Reduction of Particulate Matter at the Green Buffer of the Sihwa Industrial Complex
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5538; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105538 - 15 May 2021
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Green buffer (GB) zones are designed to prevent the spread of air pollutants and odors from industrial complexes (ICs) to residential areas (RAs). We analyzed changes in the concentration of particulate matter (PM) and the number of high PM pollution days for 10 [...] Read more.
Green buffer (GB) zones are designed to prevent the spread of air pollutants and odors from industrial complexes (ICs) to residential areas (RAs). We analyzed changes in the concentration of particulate matter (PM) and the number of high PM pollution days for 10 years after the GB was implemented, using the National Atmospheric Environmental Research Stations 2001–2018 dataset. We also performed field measurements of PM10 and PM2.5 from February 2018 to January 2019 to analyze the PM concentrations at human breathing height throughout the GB. Before GB implementation (2001–2006), PM10 in the RA was 9% higher than that in the IC. After GB zone implementation (2013–2018), PM10 in the RA was 11% lower than that of the IC. Furthermore, the PM concentration in the RA (slope = ∆Concentration/∆Time, −2.09) rapidly decreased compared to that in the IC (slope = −1.02) and the western coastal area (WCA) (slope = −1.55) over the 10-year period. At PM concentrations at human breathing height, PM10 and PM2.5 in the RA were lower than those in the IC by 27% and 26%, respectively. After GB implementation, the wind speed was positively correlated but SOx was negatively correlated with the PM reduction rate at a local scale. These results show that there was a reduction of PM during and after GB implementation, implying the need for proper management of GBs and continuous measure of pollutant sources at the green buffers of industrial complexes. Full article
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Towards Evidence Based Policy Making in GIAHS: Convention Theory and Effects of GIAHS Registration on the Wholesale and Retail Trade of Traditional and Local Vegetables
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5330; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105330 - 11 May 2021
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This study examines how the registration of certain agricultural regions affects the sales of vegetables classified as traditional. We focused on the sales trends of traditional vegetables from the Noto region, one of the first designated sites of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems [...] Read more.
This study examines how the registration of certain agricultural regions affects the sales of vegetables classified as traditional. We focused on the sales trends of traditional vegetables from the Noto region, one of the first designated sites of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). We compared the sales of recognized traditional vegetables to those of similar traditional vegetables from nearby areas and vegetables labeled with the same place names as the traditional vegetables but without elements of traditionality in branding. The study analyzed the sale and relevant trends of four categories of vegetable: Kaga vegetables, vegetables labeled “Kaga”, Noto vegetables, and vegetables labeled “Noto”. We further analyzed the trends by applying Convention Theory to understand the underpinning “orders of worth” in the purchase and sale of the items. Both Noto vegetables and place-labeled vegetables increased in overall sales since GIAHS registration in 2011. The recent increases in sales volume and number of items, however, were largely due to the production of lettuce, a crop from a vegetable factory. By applying Convention Theory, we identified that in the agriculture of the region, industrial farming impacted even the GIAHS registered site. Thus, careful collection and analysis of evidence is necessary to evaluate the effects of GIAHS registration and draft an action plan for further evidence-based policy making. Full article
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