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| Name | Fresh tracks in the forest: assessing incipient payments for envirol services initiatives in Bolivia |
| Description | Robertson, N.; Wunder, S. 2005. Fresh tracks in the forest: assessing incipient payments for environmental services initiatives in Bolivia. Bogor, Indonesia, CIFOR. xii, 137p.As threats to the world’s ecosystems grow and change, increasing attention has been focused on the important services that ecosystems provide to humans. These services include carbon sequestration and storage, watershed protection, and landscape beauty and biodiversity conservation. Worldwide, a new generation of conservation initiatives aims at creating systems in which the users of one or more environmental services compensate resource managers for improved conservation of these services. Such systems, termed ‘payments for environmental services’ (PES), may have the potential to protect environmental services while at the same time improving local livelihoods. This study provides an overview and assessment of environmental, economic and social effects of various PES-related initiatives as well as an overview of challenges and promoting factors to PES in Bolivia.We use five criteria to define PES systems: a voluntary agreement, a well-defined service, at least one buyer, at least one seller, and a conditional (quid pro quo) transaction. |
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