Payment for water-based environmental services: Ecuador's experiences, lessons learned and ways forward

dc.contributorIUCN (The World Conservation Union)en
dc.contributor.authorEspinosa, C.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialEcuador: Quitoen
dc.coverage.spatialCuencaen
dc.coverage.spatialPimampiroen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:19:15Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:19:15Zen
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.description.abstractThe IUCN Water and Nature Initiative supported the development of a study in Ecuador, which aimed to identify national experiences in the creation and implementation of financial instruments as mechanisms to pay for water-based environmental services. Three case studies are analysed in this report: Water Fund (FONAG) in Quito, the water fee in Cuenca and the water fund for protecting environmental services in Pimampiro. The report begins with a brief description of the state of water in Ecuador followed by an analysis of the framework in which financial mechanisms are developed. The report then presents and analyses the three cases, and presents a conclusion on the appropriateness of using payment for environmental services schemes in Ecuador, highlighting the main factors that allow their implementation.en
dc.description.notesPES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier2312en
dc.identifier.citationIUCN Water, Nature and Economics Technical Paper No. 2en
dc.identifier.isbn955-8177-44-Xen
dc.identifier.other2312_PES_water_Ecuador.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66811en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherColombo, Sri Lanka: IUCN Ecosystems and Livelihoods Group Asiaen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2005-104.pdfen
dc.rightsCopyright 2005, IUCN. Reproduction of this publication for educational and other non-commercial purposes is authorised without prior permission from the copyright holder, providing the source is fully acknowledged.en
dc.subjectAquatic ecosystemsen
dc.subjectWater managementen
dc.subjectEconomic analysesen
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectEnvironmental servicesen
dc.subjectWateren
dc.subjectWater qualityen
dc.subjectWatershed managementen
dc.subjectWater pollutionen
dc.subjectWater resourcesen
dc.subjectEconomic evaluationen
dc.subjectEcosystem servicesen
dc.subjectCase studiesen
dc.subjectEcuadoren
dc.titlePayment for water-based environmental services: Ecuador's experiences, lessons learned and ways forwarden
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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