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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 Management In Mexico: Analysis FromThe Sustainability Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors endorses the idea that water problems like scarcity is a regional rather than a global issue, and they advocate the integrated/holistic approach, which limits the expansion of supply-oriented infrastructure, addresses cumulative effects at watershed level, and unleashes the full potential of conservation-oriented innovation.
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A Cautionary Note on the Use of Benefit Metrics for Cost-Effective Conservation
TL;DR: This work proposes a hybrid optimization heuristic that can improve performance and provide conservation professionals with more flexibility and freedom to select conservation projects at their discretion—potentially overcoming a substantial real-world adaptation hurdle.
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Learning impacts of policy games: investigating role-play simulations (RPS) for stakeholder engagement in payment for hydrological services program in Veracruz, Mexico
Andres M. Urcuqui-Bustamante,Theresa Selfa,Kelly W. Jones,Catherine Ashcraft,Robert H. Manson,Heidi Asbjornsen +5 more
Aplicabilidade, potenciais e desafios dos Pagamentos por Serviços Ambientais para conservação da água no sul do Brasil Applicability, Potential and Payment Challenges for Environmental Services on Water Conservation in Southern Brazil
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed six PES programs aiming the conservation of water resources in Southern Brazil and found that the difficulty in dealing with transaction costs was one of the most important factors.
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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.