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Juan Manuel Torres
Bio: Juan Manuel Torres is an academic researcher from Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. The author has contributed to research in topics: Payment & Ventriculostomy. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 540 citations.
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TL;DR: The Payment for Hydrological Environmental Services (PSAH) Program as mentioned in this paper was designed to complement other policy responses to the crisis at the interface of these problems, where the Mexican federal government pays participating forest owners for the benefits of watershed protection and aquifer recharge in areas where commercial forestry is not currently competitive.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the existence of a bequest motive, or intergenerational value, closely related with the conservation of forests in poor rural communities with communal forests under logging.
Abstract: The study identifies the existence of a bequest motive, or intergenerational value, closely related with the conservation of forests in poor rural communities with communal forests under logging. A survey with the contingent-valuation question type was applied to the households of two populations living in two contrasting forest communities. Results show that 83 and 71% of head of households declared a willingness to make an altruistic sacrifice for the subsequent enjoyment of their children of this forest resource, measured in different ways. Variables such as age, gender, income, education, and forest type are closely related with the bequest motive, as other literature has found to be the case regarding private forest owners. Differences among communities show that the larger the benefits they obtain from the forest resources they own, the larger the bequest motive.
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TL;DR: Payments for environmental services (PES) have attracted increasing interest as a mechanism to translate external, non-market values of the environment into real financial incentives for local actors to provide environmental services as mentioned in this paper.
2,130 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the effectiveness of the ecosystem services framework in decision-making is thwarted by conflation of services, values, and benefits, and that failure to appropriately treat diverse kinds of values.
1,269 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize the information presented, according to case characteristics with respect to design, costs, environmental effectiveness, and other outcomes, and conclude that user-financed PES programs were better targeted, more closely tailored to local conditions and needs, had better monitoring and a greater willingness to enforce conditionality, and had far fewer confounding side objectives than government-funded programs.
1,157 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative and novel theoretical approach to the conceptualization and analysis of payments for environmental services (PES) is presented, taking into account complexities related to uncertainty, distributional issues, social embeddedness, and power relations.
987 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight and illustrate the approach adopted by TEEB: namely to show how economic concepts and tools can help equip society with the means to incorporate the values of nature into decision making at all levels.
Abstract: The aim of this synthesis is to highlight and illustrate the approach adopted by TEEB: namely to show how economic concepts and tools can help equip society with the means to incorporate the values of nature into decision making at all levels.
958 citations