Pagos por servicios ambientales: Principios basicos esenciales
RESUMEN: Los pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA) son parte de un paradigma de conservacion nuevo y mas directo, que explicitamente reconoce la necesidad de crear puentes […]
- Date of Publication: 2006
- Author(s): S. Wunder
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica: Increasing efficiency through spatial differentiation
Abstract: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) have become a widely acknowledged and increasingly popular market based instrument to conserve forests and their environmental services. Costa Rica […]
- Date of Publication: 2006
- Author(s): T. Wunscher; S. Engel; S. Wunder
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments for Environmental Services: An equitable approach for reducing poverty and conserving nature
WWF’s approach of equitable PES, which it is developing and implementing with partners including CARE and IIED, aims to address the constraints to poverty alleviation by […]
- Date of Publication: 2006
- Author(s): WWF
- Type of Document: Research Report
Multiple role performance of upland women farmers: Socioeconomic characteristics and perceived consequences
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- Date of Publication: 2006
- Author(s): X.F. Adiong-Verbal
- Type of Document: Thesis or Dissertation
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Four decades of land use change in the Cotacachi Andes: 1963-2000
This fourth chapter uses a combination of scientific tools and interview to track changes in land use patterns in Cotacachi over the latter half of the […]
- Date of Publication: 2006
- Author(s): X. Zapata Rios; R.E. Rhoades; M.C. Segovia; F. Zehetner
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Toward sustainable crop production in Cotacachi: An assessment of the soils’ nutrient status
In Chapter 12, soil nutrients and soil quality in Cotacachi are thoroughly examined to evaluate historic, current, and future capacity for crop production. The Cotacachi soils […]
- Date of Publication: 2006
- Author(s): F. Zehetner; W.P. Miller
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Plant-water relations in an Andean landscape: Modelling the effect of irrigation on upland crop production
Chapter 13 models the potential impact of expanding the availability of irrigation in Cotacachi. While Cotacachi receives enough rain to cultivate a number of crops in […]
- Date of Publication: 2006
- Author(s): F. Zehetner; W.P. Miller; X. Zapata Rios
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Shaping an Andean landscape: Processes affecting topography, soils and hydrology in Cotacachi
This second chapter introduces the topography and field scale characteristics of soil and water types, processes, and uses. Important concepts regarding the variation of climate and […]
- Date of Publication: 2006
- Author(s): F. Zehtner; W.P. Miller
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
When are payments for environmental services beneficial to the poor?
Abstract: The impact of payment for environmental services (PES) on poverty varies. Generally, PES is good for landowners and may negatively affect consumers if food demand […]
- Date of Publication: 2006
- Author(s): D. Zilberman; L. Lipper; N. McCarthy
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Lao, Huynh Van
Country of Origin: Vietnam- Start Date: 2005/10/01
- End Date: 2007/11/01
- University: Nong Lam University
- Degree: MS
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
