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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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Water Pollution from Agriculture: Policy Challenges in a Case Study of Guanajuato
TL;DR: In Mexico, as in many other countries, agriculture is the main user of water, and its prime polluter as discussed by the authors. Nevertheless, the country lacks an agro-environmental policy aimed at reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.
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Essays on Behavioral Economics and Policies for Provision of Ecosystem Services
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of REDD+ payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes on forest conservation and found that the negative impact of such schemes on the overall contributions to forest conservation was significant.
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Contradictory distributive principles and land tenure govern benefit-sharing of payments for ecosystem services (PES) in Chiapas, Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine distributional justice in four communities of the state of Chiapas, Mexico, which participate in a PES programme, and assess how local justice principles compare with the programme's goals.
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Designing a payment for ecosystem services scheme, the practical obstacles for implementation in arid and semiarid rangelands
TL;DR: This study aimed to design and introduce the framework of a PES scheme based on field surveys, information collection and analysis emphasising soil and water conservation functions, and identification of the challenges and obstacles facing implementation of the designed framework.
Social property relations and payment for environmental services : a case study in a rural community in Mexico
Mora de la Mora,Gabriela de la +1 more
TL;DR: Raktažodžiai et al. as discussed by the authors presented a case study centred on the rural community of Chichila, Mexico, which has implemented a local project of payment for environmental services to the neighboring town of Taxco.
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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.