Stream mitigation banking

作者：Lave Rebecca^*

来源：Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water, 2018, 5(3): e1279.

DOI：10.1002/wat2.1279

• Clean Water Act
• compensatory mitigation
• markets for ecosystem services
• stream restoration

Compensatory mitigation (also known as offsetting) is the practice of allowing harm to one ecosystem as long as a comparable ecosystem elsewhere is restored. This common practice is intended to balance the competing demands of economic development and environmental protection. Here, I explore compensatory mitigation through a focus on one particular type: stream mitigation banking in the United States under the Clean Water Act, a market-based form of environmental management. I explain the motivations for compensating for rather than preventing environmental damage more broadly, the practice of stream mitigation banking, and what we know about its environmental and social impacts. I conclude by calling out the stakes in offsetting more generally, and in stream mitigation banking in particular, arguing that neither market-based environmental management nor offsetting more generally may be serving us well. This article is categorized under:
Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Value of Water Water and Life > Conservation, Management, and Awareness

• 出版日期2018-6