Payments for watershed services: Opportunities and realities

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dc.contributor.authorBond, I.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialAsiaen
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Americaen
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen
dc.coverage.spatialCentral Americaen
dc.coverage.spatialBoliviaen
dc.coverage.spatialChinaen
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africaen
dc.coverage.spatialIndonesiaen
dc.coverage.spatialCosta Ricaen
dc.coverage.spatialIndiaen
dc.coverage.spatialMexicoen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:45:25Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:45:25Zen
dc.date.issued2007en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstract"Many nations have found that regulatory approaches to land and water management have a limited impact. An alternative is to create incentives for sound management under mechanisms known as payments for ecosystem services. It is a simple idea: people who look after ecosystems that benefit others should be recognised and rewarded. In the case of watersheds, downstream beneficiaries of wise upstream land and water use should compensate the stewards. To be effective, these "payments for watershed services" must cover the costs of watershed management. In developing countries, they might also aid local development and reduce poverty. But new research shows that the problems in watersheds are complex and not easily solved. Payments for watershed services do not guarantee poverty reduction and cannot replace the best aspects of regulation.en
dc.description.notesPES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier3905en
dc.identifier.citationSustainable Development Opinion Papersen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68205en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherLondon, UK: International Institute for Environment and Developmenten
dc.relation.urihttp://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/17010IIED.pdfen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=17010IIEDen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectWatershed managementen
dc.subjectPESen
dc.subjectPayments for Watershed Services (PWS)en
dc.subjectRegulationsen
dc.subjectPoverty reductionen
dc.subjectWatersheden
dc.titlePayments for watershed services: Opportunities and realitiesen
dc.typeAbstracten
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