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The principal objective of the report is to outline a comprehensive global financing strategy for
the implementation of sustainable forest management (SFM). The core components of this strategy include: the development of enabling conditions for the transition to SFM, including...
En el contexto del protocolo de Kyoto se realizó un estudio para evaluar el potencial de proyectos forestales para fijación de carbono en el Noroccidente de Ecuador y en la Patagonia Argentina. Se consideraron dos tipos de bosques en cada país: en Ecuador bosques secundarios y...
Water resources in Indonesia face increasingly complex management problems, associated with deterioration in water availability, quantity and quality. Policy to date has emphasized utilization of water. At the same time landslides, soil erosion and floods have increased in numbers,...
Due to the progressive developments around catchment management and the ambitious goals
set out by the National Water Act (Act no. 36 of 1998) (DWA&F, 1997a), the Water Service
Act No. 108 of 1997 (Annon, 1997), and the Water Resource Strategy (2002), coupled with historical...
Los mercados para servicios ambientales de protección de cuencas están cada vez mas de moda, especialmente en América Latina. Aunque el principio básico detrás del uso de mercados para tratar las externalidades del uso del suelo por medio de recompensas es atractivo y conceptualmente...
This article explores some common but complex features of agri-environmental relationships that will affect the design of agri-environmental payments programs.
While not critiquing current or proposed policies, the discussion highlights some program design features necessary for an...
La investigación que sustenta esta publicación fue motivada desde una preocupación central por la equidad y un énfasis especial sobre aquellos “más cercanos” a la tierra. El interés subyacente era explorar si el concepto de PES podría contribuir a superar la inequidad en el acceso y...
Historically, it has been the responsibility of governments to ensure biodiversity protection and provision of ecosystem services. The main instruments to achieve such objectives have been:
• direct resource ownership and management by government agencies,
• public regulation of...
These many innovations are generating important lessons, yet they limited in scale, scope and impact. Given the tremendous social benefit of forest services, and the many private and public stakeholders who would gain – both socially and economically -- from greater protection, it is...
Conservation biologists, policy makers, and citizens have identified the protection of native ecosystems in low-income nations as a global social objective. Among the more popular initiatives to achieve this objective is the use of development interventions in the peripheral areas of...
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