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Paying for the hydrological services of Mexico's forests: Analysis, negotiations and results
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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.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2008-05-01. It has received 571 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water scarcity & Watershed management.read more
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Targeting and implementing payments for ecosystem services: Opportunities for bundling biodiversity conservation with carbon and water services in Madagascar
Kelly J. Wendland,Miroslav Honzák,Rosimeiry Portela,Benjamin Vitale,Samuel Rubinoff,Jeannicq Randrianarisoa +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on developing a method for selecting sites for PES where the main interest is to bundle biodiversity with other ecosystem services, and assess the opportunities for bundling biodiversity conservation with carbon and water services at the national scale and identify where using PES to protect these areas of multiple benefits would be most cost effective and efficient.
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Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico's National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate a Mexican federal program that compensates landowners for forest protection, and they use matched controls from the program applicant pool to establish counterfactual deforestation rates.
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Problematizing REDD+ as an experiment in payments for ecosystem services
TL;DR: In this article, the REDD+ policy framework is conceptualized as the world's largest experiment in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), which promotes the commodification of ecosystems' carbon storage and sequestration functions on a global scale and is consistent with market-based conservation approaches and the "neoliberalization of nature".
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Bridging the gap between forest conservation and poverty alleviation: the Ecuadorian Socio Bosque program
Free de Koning,Marcela Aguiñaga,Manuel Bravo,Marco Chiu,Max Lascano,Tannya Lozada,Luis Suarez +6 more
TL;DR: The Socio Bosque program as mentioned in this paper is a national conservation agreement scheme of the government of Ecuador, which consists of the transfer of a direct monetary incentive per hectare of native forest and other native ecosystems to individual landowners and local and indigenous communities who protect these ecosystems, through voluntary conservation agreements that are monitored on a regular basis for compliance.
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Silver bullet or fools' gold? A global review of markets for forest environmental services and their impact on the poor.
N. Landell-Mills,Ina Porras +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define markets as regular gatherings of people for the purpose of buying and selling goods or services, distinguished from public payments to private landowners for ecosystem services, or private deals between a few buyers and sellers.
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Auctions for conservation contracts: an empirical examination of Victoria’s BushTender trial
TL;DR: In this paper, an auction of con- servation contracts was designed to reveal hidden information needed to facilitate meaningful transactions between landholders and government, and the results obtained from a pilot auction of conservation contracts run in two regions of Victoria were shown that auctioning conservation contracts for environmental outcomes is an important new policy mechanism that deserves closer examination.
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Auctioning Conservation Contracts: A Theoretical Analysis and an Application
TL;DR: In this article, a model of optimal bidding for conservation contracts is developed and applied to a hypothetical conservation program, and the model is used to analyze the potential benefits of auctions in allocating contracts for the provision of nonmarket goods in the countryside.