Fair deals for watershed services in Bolivia

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2007

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London, UK: International Institute for Environment and Development

Abstract

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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Water management, Payments for environmental services, Livelihoods, Indigenous community, Water, Decentralization, Watershed management, Government, PES, Watershed services, Bolivia, Fundación natura bolivia, Market-based mechanisms, Trust, Incentives, Governance Watershed

Citation

Natural Resource Issues No. 7