Payments for hydrological environmental services program
Abstract
The Payments for Hydrological Environmental Services Program started in Mexico in 2003 created a financial link between the users and providers of environmental services. The program consists of direct payments to landowners of temperate, tropical, and high mountain cloud forests associated with community water supply. Funding levels were at MXP300 per ha (US$27.3) to all forests except
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Keywords
Payments for environmental services, Subtropics, Tropical zones, Forest ecosystems, Conservation, Reforestation, Conservation incentives, Cloud forests, Water fees