Payment for water-based environmental services: Ecuador’s experiences, lessons learned and ways forward
The 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 […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): C. Espinosa
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
How can market mechanisms for forest environmental services help the poor? Preliminary lessons from Latin America
Summary: Market mechanisms for forest environmental services are a new approach for conservation but there is also increasing interest in the derived developmental benefits of these […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Grieg-Gran; I. Porras; S. Wunder
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Integrated silvopastoral approaches to ecosystem management project in Central and Latin America
This presentation describes the GEF-funded project that addresses the following objectives: 1. Determine how livestock farmers make decisions on land use changes to benefit from PES; […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Ibrahim
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payment for Forests Watershed Environmental Services in Mexico
The objectives of Mexico’s PSAH program is to stop the deforestation that threatens those forests critical for watershed-related environmental services in Mexico. This program pays land […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): J. Brana Varela; C. Munoz Pina
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The Green Buck: Using economic tools to deliver conservation goals: A WWF field guide
This guide demonstrates some of the ways in which WWF has developed economic approaches to the achievement of conservation success around the world, and some of […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): T. Le Quesne; R. McNally
- Type of Document: Research Report
Payment for environmental services at the local level: Comparing two cases in Ecuador
Introduction: In Ecuador, a series of experiences of payment for environmental services (PES) have been developed. Contrasting from what happens in Costa Rica, where a central […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Alban; S. Wunder
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
PES experiences in Latin America
This presentation describes several experiences with payments for environmental services from Latin America, including water payments in Quito, Ecuador, that are used to conserve the mountain […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): M. Echavarria
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Paying for the hydrological services of Mexico’s forests
Contents: Forests, Deforestation and Institutions – Deforestation – Land tenure and forests in Mexico – Poverty – Indigenous Communities Water and Forests Public Policies to Reduce […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): C. Munoz; A. Guevara; J.M. Bulas; J.M Torres; J. Brana
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers: Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity
This book describes the conservation of plant varieties through the care of home breeders and small growers. Offering both a scientific and human perspective in discussions […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): V.D. Nazarea
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Developing markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods: Early findings from country work and literature review
This presentation summarizes the IIED program “Developing markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods”, suggests early findings from literature review, and concludes with emerging issues […]
- Date of Publication: 2005
- Author(s): N. Neves
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
