payment for ecosystem services
Environmental managers often make decisions that include trade offs between two or more possible scenarios. These choices can become challenging when the socio-ecological system is complex and the environment has different ecosystem services. And it is particularly difficult when...
Water is in high demand not just for agriculture but for everyday use. Schemes that offer payment for environmental services such as Water Funds are often proposed as a market incentive for managing demand in many sectors from forestry to natural resource management and water. However...
Water flows in Peru's Cañete basin
How do we balance user of ecosystems services - such as clean water - with preservation of the environments that provides such benefits? In the Cañete river basin on Peru's central coast, partners are working to do just that...
