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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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Hydrochemical assessment of Hydrological Environmental Services in the recharge area in the Southwest of Mexico City
María Emilia Zabala,Sandra Martinez,María Perevochtchikova,G. Eduardo Sandoval-Romero,Nidya Aponte +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of PES in the conservation soil area, the chemical and isotopic compositions of water from springs were characterized and the water baseline chemistry was established to provide a useful standard to monitor the water resources and to support the decision-making under current water management policies.
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Conserving Forests: Mandates, Management or Money?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the effectiveness of three conservation instruments in limiting deforestation and forest degradation: protected areas, payment for ecosystem services (PES), and forest management using a matched sample of one hectare parcels and a spatial lag model of deforestation.
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Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence showing that group payments distributed proportional to effort are as effective as payments targeted to individuals in increasing public good provision in the decision setting where donors who make transfer payments to public good providers.
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Lessons Relearned: Can Previous Research on Incentive-Based Mechanisms Point the Way for Payments for Ecosystem Services?
TL;DR: Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are policies in which individuals or communities are compensated for undertaking actions that increase the provision of ecosystem services such as water purification, flood mitigation, and carbon sequestration as mentioned in this paper.
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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.