Browsing by Author "Asquith, N. M."

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  • Fair deals for watershed services in Bolivia
    Asquith, N. M.; Vargas, M. T. (London, UK: International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007)
    This document reports on an assessment of the potential of market mechanisms to improve rural livelihoods through watershed management, conducted by Fundación Natura Bolivia. Watershed management schemes in Bolivia have had minimal success. Most have been regulation-oriented, top-down approaches. Despite having a large per capita water supply, local water scarcity is a persistent problem in Bolivia.
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    Rapid hydrological analysis of the Los Negros watershed in support of a Payments-for-Environmental Services (PES) mechanism
    Asquith, N. M. (2006)
    Hydrological research is expensive and time consuming. If Payments for Environmental Services (PES) systems are really to integrate forest conservation and sustainable development in the world's poorest and most biodiverse watersheds, the forestry research community needs to find a quick and easy way of undertaking a sufficient level of hydrological analysis that while providing data of sufficient accuracy to guide the development of PES systems, can be collected cheaply and rapidly by local institutions. Currently, most PES schemes are based on the untested assumption of a direct relationship between forest cover and water.
  • Selling two environmental services: In-kind payments for bird habitat and watershed protection in Los Negros, Bolivia
    Asquith, N. M.; Vargas, M. T.; Wunder, Sven (Elsevier B.V., 2008)
    This article describes the payment for environmental services (PES) scheme in Los Negros valley, Bolivia, which pays landowners for two environmental services provided by forest protection - bird habitat and watershed services. Paying landowners for both environmental services allows for multiple sources of funding (i.e., conservation donors as well as downstream irrigators), thus making forest conservation a more competitive land use choice for owners.