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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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Coordinated service provision in payment for ecosystem service schemes through adaptive governance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how the concepts of lateral information flows and incentive alignment might shape ecosystem service payment schemes and allow the coordination of ecosystem service priorities across different jurisdictions, and suggest that progress from purely anthropocentric assessments of payment schemes towards biocentric evaluations may lead to improved design principles.
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Evaluating how we evaluate success: Monitoring, evaluation and adaptive management in Payments for Watershed Services programs
Katherine Brownson,Laurie Fowler +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review and a survey of Watershed Services (PWS) programs is presented to improve understanding of the factors that contribute to the adoption of monitoring, evaluation and adaptive management practices through qualitative and logistic regression analyses.
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Local responses to design changes in payments for ecosystem services in Chiapas, Mexico
Santiago Izquierdo-Tort,Esteve Corbera,Esteve Corbera,Alicia Barceinas Cruz,Julia Naime,Paola Angélica Vázquez-Cisneros,Julia Carabias Lillo,Elisa Castro-Tovar,Fiorella Ortiz Rosas,Nuria Rubio,Leonora Torres Knoop,Jérôme Dupras +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of PES design features and local responses by community participants in 10 communities of Selva Lacandona, state of Chiapas, Mexico are investigated.
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Present forest management structures and policies in temperate forests of Mexico: Challenges and prospects for unique tree species assemblages
Jessica Wallace,Núria Aquilué,Chelsea Archambault,Sophie Carpentier,Xavier W. Francoeur,Marie-Hélène Greffard,Isabelle Laforest,Leopoldo Galicia,Christian Messier +8 more
TL;DR: The management of these forests shares many of the current challenges affecting all temperate forests, and some of the main challenges and opportunities forest management poses to Mexican society today are presented.
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Low-Carbon Development: Latin American Responses to Climate Change
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the potential costs and benefits of climate change and their options for decisions that will need to be made over the next decades as well as the global context in which these decisions must be taken.
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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.