Green Water Credits: Lessons learned from payments for environmental services

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dc.contributor.authorGrieg-Gran, M.en
dc.contributor.authorNoel, S.en
dc.contributor.authorPorras, I.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:19:46Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:19:46Zen
dc.date.issued2006en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractSummary: Green Water Credits is a mechanism for payments to land users for specified land and soil management activities that determine the supply of fresh water at source. These activities are presently unrecognized and unrewarded. Direct payment will enable better management and therefore less runoff, flooding, and siltation of reservoirs, and more groundwater recharge and stream base flow, particularly during the dry season. At the same time, Green Water Credits will diversify rural incomes and help communities to adapt to economic and environmental change. The proof-of-concept project aims to demonstrate the viability and feasibility of the concept. World-wide experience with payments for environmental services (PES) initiatives offers several useful lessons about:en
dc.description.notesPES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier2457en
dc.identifier.citationGreen Water Credits Report 2, ISRIC Report 2006/5en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66955en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherWageningen, the Netherlands: ISRICen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.isric.org/Webdocs/Docs/GWC2_Lessons%20learned%20(July%202006).pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2006 ISRIC - World soil Informationen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectNongovernmental organizations (NGOs)en
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectSoil managementen
dc.subjectLand use managementen
dc.subjectEnvironmental servicesen
dc.subjectWateren
dc.subjectIncome diversificationen
dc.subjectCivil society organizations (CSOs)en
dc.subjectPayment initiativesen
dc.subjectAfricaen
dc.subjectRural communitiesen
dc.subjectGreen water creditsen
dc.subjectWatershed servicesen
dc.subjectTransaction costsen
dc.subjectUpland land managersen
dc.subjectWatersheden
dc.titleGreen Water Credits: Lessons learned from payments for environmental servicesen
dc.title.alternativeLessons learned from payments for environmental servicesen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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