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• Case studies of markets and innovative financial mechanisms for water services from forests 

  Perrot-Maître, D.; Davis, P. (2001)

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• The working for water programme: Evolution of a payments for ecosystem services mechanism that addresses both poverty and ecosystem service delivery in South Africa 

  Turpie, J. K.; Marais, C.; Blignaut, J. N. (Elsevier B.V., 2008)

  South Africa's government-funded Working for Water (WfW) program is a payments for ecosystem services (PES) initiative to improve the biodiversity, land potential, and hydrologic function of mountain watersheds by invasive ...
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  How New York City used an ecosystem services strategy carried out through an urban-rural partnership to preserve the pristine quality of its drinking water and save billions of dollars and What lessons it teaches about using ecosystem services 

  Appleton, A. F. (2002)

  This presentation by Al Appleton, former New York City Commissioner of Water and Environment, discusses his experience setting up payment schemes for farmers in the Catskill Mountains that have not only safeguarded New ...