Latin America
El presente trabajo recoge las reflexiones surgidas durante la primera fase del Proyecto CEPAL/PNUD Aplicación de Instrumentos Económicos en la Gestión Ambiental de America Latina y El Caribe. Este proyecto consistió en la elaboración de estudios de casos nacionales en paises de la...
El objetivo de este documento es facilitar una discusión sobre el papel del Estado en la lucha contra la pobreza y en la promoción de la democracia en América Latina. Más concretamente, este documento ofrece una caracterización de desarrollo del Estado en la región; una explicación...
This guide attempts to define a roadmap for the creation of economic mechanisms and tools that relate development to conservation, agricultural and industrial production, and the increasing urbanization of our landscapes.
To pay or to compensate for environmental services – how...
This paper presents the findings of a brief study conducted under Phase I of a global initiative of
the U.K. Department for International Development, Developing markets for watershed
protection services and improved livelihoods, which is being implemented by the International...
El pago por la protección de la cobertura vegetal para garantizar el flujo y calidad del agua ha sido el fundamento de diferentes iniciativas en curso en Colombia y Ecuador. A pesar del auge de este tipo de iniciativas, no se ha realizado una evaluación o discusión sobre las...
Quito and its neighboring towns and villages, among the country's most populated regions, receive their water supply form the high plateaus of the Andean mountain range. Some of these watersheds are located inside protected areas, such as the Antisana and Caymabe-Coca Ecological...
This document is an orientation to sources of funding for protected areas and biodiversity
conservation. It is designed to serve as a primer and basic guidelines for protected area agencies
and managers as well as non-governmental organizations carrying out programs of...
Nature conservation policies in different countries are increasingly linked to global ecological decision making. Examples of such linkages abound, and range from priorities and policy objectives defined in international forums and institutions, to the action of global environmentally...
From a conceptual point of view, national forest management standards in Latin American countries have progressed significantly in recent years.Examples include the Costa Rican Standards and Procedures for Sustainable Forest Management and Certification, developed by the National...
El presente documento está basada en la experiencia de Met@LoGo en Perú y detalla el proceso de reforma en la gestión de las municipalidades, a lo largo de sus etapas de acuerdo con la metodología aplicada en los cuatro países involucrados en Met@LoGo: Chile, Colombia, Honduras y Perú...
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