生态系统服务付费是以保护和可持续利用生态系统服务为目的,以经济手段为主调节相关者利益关系的制度安排,是以保护生态环境、促进人与自然和谐发展为目的,根据生态系统服务价值、生态保护成本、发展机会成本,运用政府和市场手段,调节生态保护利益相关者之间利益关系的公共制度.在对国内外生态补偿的概念、内涵和基本问题等理论阐述的基础上,从逻辑思路、实施原则、实施理念和制度等层面对国内外生态系统服务付费案例进行了阐释.重点从目标层面、服务购买者、规模尺度、利益相关者参与程度与支付形式分析了政府和市场两种生态补偿机制的差异,揭示了国内外在环境服务付费机制发展过程中的经验以及特点,这对我国的生态补偿制度完善设计和实践应用具有重要的借鉴意义.
The payment for environmental services(PES),for the purpose of conservation and sustainable use of ecosystem services,is the institutional arrangements to adjust the interests of stakeholders mainly by economic instruments.Meanwhile,PES,aiming at the protection of ecological environment and the advancement of harmonious development between man and nature,is the institutional arrangements based on the value of services,ecological protection costs,and opportunity costs of development by government and market means.In this paper,on the basis of theoretical explanations about the concept,content and characteristics of the domestic and international ecological compensation,the cases about the payment for environmental services at home and abroad from the logical thinking,the principles and concepts of implementation and institutions are analyzed comparatively.Especially,the differences of ecological compensation between state-based payment and market-based payment are disclosed from the point of view of the object,the purchase of services,scale,the degree of participation and forms of payment,in order to reveal the experiences in the development of the payment for environmental services at home and abroad and the characteristics of ecological compensation,which will be of help to the practices of ecological compensation in China.