Negotiating watershed services
In response to the disappointing results of many regulatory or public investment approaches to watershed management, payments for environmental services has emerged as a new mechanism […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): R.A. Hope; I. Porras; M. Borgoyary; M. Miranda; C. Agarwal; S. Tiwari; J.M. Amezaga
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
PES in Asia: Trends, lessons learned, best practices, and knowledge gaps
Abstract: Payment for environmental services programs across Asia are still at a relatively nascent stage and few cases of functioning PES markets actually exist. However, a […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): M. Huang
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Watershed-based payment for environmental services in Asia
Few mature PES programs actually exist in Asia. While premature to conclude just how effective these schemes are, this assessment provides an Overview of the lessons […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): M. Huang; S.K. Upadhyaya
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payments for watershed services: Opportunities and realities
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 […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): I. Bond
- Type of Document: Research Report
Globalization and the poverty-environment link in Asian agriculture
Abstract: More than thirty years ago, the green revolution helped tropical Asia to forestall widespread poverty and also slowed the rate of agricultural expansion into forested […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): I. Coxhead
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The profitability of forest protection versus logging and the role of payments for environmental services (PES) in the Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica
This article analyzes the profitability of protecting forests with PES (payments for environmental services) versus the profitability of logging in the Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce, Costa […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): E. Ibarra Gene
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Contribuciones de ciencias economicas a la investigacion agropecuaria
Powerpoint presentation. Summary: A presentation to General agricultural scientists about the use and abuse of economic analysis.
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): J. Alwang
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
SANREM Baseline Survey Questionnaire for Tiraque Bolivia
This questionnaire was used for the SANREM baseline survey in Tiraque Bolivia during 2007. This survey was enumerated to 400 households in the SANREM focal watershed […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): J. Alwang
- Type of Document: Project Document
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Bioindicadores terrestres y acuaticos para las microcuencas de los rios Illangama y Alumbre, provincia Bolivar
This document is a 30 page working paper synthesizing an assessment of biodiversity in Illangama and Alumbre sub-watersheds in Bolivar, Ecuador. The paper also presents a […]
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): J.A. Calles
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Negotiating livelihoods and sustainability after Uganda’s forest sector governance reform
Update on Uganda field work for the Poverty Environment Network.
- Date of Publication: 2007
- Author(s): P. Jagger
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Policy
