scholarly journals PAYMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (PES): CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR RURAL PRODUCERS AT SENHORA DE OLIVEIRA, MINAS GERAIS

FLORESTA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 090
Author(s):  
Bruno Leão Said Schettini ◽  
Marcelo Gomes da Silva Pereira ◽  
Laércio Antônio Gonçalves Jacovine ◽  
Samuel José Silva Soares da Rocha ◽  
Paulo Henrique Villanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management Plan ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Rural Producers ◽  
Diagnosis Technique

Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is an important tool for environmental conservation and is a relevant practice in many countries for the maintenance of forests. Thus, the objective of the present study was to evaluate challenges and opportunities of implementing a Payment for Environmental Services program in the municipality of Senhora de Oliveira, Minas Gerais. Socioeconomic and environmental diagnosis was performed using the Rapid Participatory Diagnosis technique. The total of 20 socioeconomic and environmental questionnaires were applied in the municipality, aiming to know in detail the local reality, raising potentialities and demands. The number of members of the 20 families that participated in the rural diagnosis was 72, of which 36 were men and 36 were women, with an average of 3.6 persons per family. Of the 20 rural properties that participated in the rural diagnosis, 35% have delimited RL areas and none of them has a management plan. The exploration of Legal Reserve occurs in 15% of the evaluated properties, being the production of firewood and cuttings the predominant activity. The average value of disposition receivable by rural producers was R$ 220.00 ha-1year-1, in which the producers who did not respond to this question were not considered. The municipality of Senhora de Oliveira, Minas Gerais has the necessary conditions to implement the PES, however the producers still do not receive any incentive to provide environmental services. If this process of PES is implemented, there will certainly be advances in environmental conservation and will bring social benefits throughout the region.

scholarly journals Payments for Environmental Services: A New People Centric Approach for Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-103
Author(s):  
Lina Chalise
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Preliminary Stage ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Global Biodiversity

Payment for Environmental Services (PES) in its preliminary stage is gaining much attention. The worth of many valuable environmental services is undermined from centuries due its free access. But now with the advancing time the blind conservation practices seem to be unreal. Thus, PES mechanism provides an attractive and convincing package in conservation and valuation of most of the indirect services of environment. This is a review article based on the introductory queries on emerging issue of valuation of environmental services via PES mechanism. Key Words: Environmental services, Global biodiversity, Conservation practices DOI: 10.3126/init.v2i1.2529 The Initiation Vol.2(1) 2008 pp99-103

scholarly journals Blue Carbon in Emissions Markets: Challenges and Opportunities for Mexico

2021 ◽  
pp. 265-283
Author(s):  
Antonina Ivanova Boncheva ◽  
Alfredo Bermudez-Contreras
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Blue Carbon ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Environmental Cooperation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Social Partnerships ◽  
The Government

AbstractMangroves are ecosystems made up of trees or shrubs that develop in the intertidal zone and provide many vital environmental services for livelihoods in coastal areas. They are a habitat for the reproduction of several marine species. They afford protection from hurricanes, tides, sea-level rise and prevent the erosion of the coasts. Just one hectare of mangrove forest can hold up to 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide, more than tropical forests and jungles. Mexico is one of the countries with the greatest abundance of mangroves in the world, with more than 700,000 ha. Blue carbon can be a novel mechanism for promoting communication and cooperation between the investor, the government, the users, and beneficiaries of the environmental services of these ecosystems, creating public–private-social partnerships through mechanisms such as payment for environmental services, credits, or the voluntary carbon market. This chapter explores the possibilities of incorporating blue carbon in emissions markets. We explore the huge potential of Mexico’s blue carbon to sequester CO2. Then we analyse the new market instrument that allows countries to sell or transfer mitigation results internationally: The Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM), established in the Paris Agreement. Secondly, we present the progress of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to standardize the methodologies to assess their stock and determine the magnitude of the blue carbon sinks. Thirdly, as an opportunity for Mexico, the collaboration with the California cap-and-trade program is analysed. We conclude that blue carbon is a very important mitigation tool to be included in the compensation schemes on regional and global levels. Additionally, mangrove protection is an excellent example of the mitigation-adaptation-sustainable development relationship, as well as fostering of governance by the inclusion of the coastal communities in decision-making and incomes.

scholarly journals DOS ESPAÇOS PÚBLICOS À NEGOCIAÇÃO INDIVIDUALIZADA: a participação dos agricultores familiares no Projeto Conservador das Águas em Extrema - MG

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Rafael Eduardo Chiodi ◽  
Paulo Eduardo Moruzzi Marques
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Regulatory Instruments ◽  
Voluntary Basis

Resumo: O pagamento por serviços ambientais é um mecanismo para promover a conservação ambiental de caráter voluntário, constituindo uma alternativa aos instrumentos regulatórios. No Brasil, o projeto Conservador das Águas em Extrema/MG constitui uma referência nacional. Este artigo veicula uma análise dos espaços públicos associados a este projeto a partir de uma investigação sobre a participação, considerando a ótica dos agricultores beneficiários. Tem como propósito discutir até que ponto a implantação do mecanismo de PSA-Água ocorre de maneira democrática e participativa. Identifica o Conselho Municipal de Desenvolvimento Ambiental e as associações de moradores como espaços públicos de participação construídos em torno deste projeto, mas que não foram imprescindíveis à efetiva implantação deste dispositivo. A negociação individualizada foi o principal meio para estabelecer contratos privados e assegurar o desenvolvimento do projeto. Conclui que, desta maneira, a participação social alcançada na gestão deste mecanismo pouco contribui para a construção de políticas públicas mais democráticas.Palavras-chave: Políticas ambientais, agricultura familiar, recursos hídricos, participação social.FROM PUBLIC SPACES TO INDIVIDUAL TRADING: the participation of family farmers in the Water Conservator project in Extrema - MGAbstract: The payment for environmental services is a mechanism to promote environmental conservation on a voluntary basis, providing an alternative to regulatory instruments. In Brazil, the Water Conservation project in Extrema/MG is a national reference. This article conveys an analysis of public spaces associated with this project from an investigation on the participation, considering the perspective of beneficiary farmers. The purpose is to discuss to what extent the implementation of the PSA-Water mechanism occurs in a democratic and participatory manner. Identifies the Municipal Council for Environmental Development and neighborhood associations as public spaces of participation built around this project, but were not essential to the effective implementation of this device. Individualized trading was the main mean of establishing private contracts and ensures the development of the project. In this way, social participation achieved in the management of this mechanism contributes to the construction of more democratic public policies.Key words: Environmental policies, family agriculture, hydric resources, social participation.

scholarly journals The Challenges of Implementing Payment for Environmental Services to Prevent The Agricultural Land Conversion

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Tri Ratna Saridewi ◽  
Nazaruddin Nazaruddin
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Land Conversion ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development

<p>Payments for environmental services mechanism is expected to strengthen decisions of agricultural landowners to maintain the existence of their agricultural land. This mechanism is expected to prevent the conversion of land that occurs due to its lower appreciation compared to other uses. This study is aimed to critically examine the challenges of implementing payments for environmental services in Indonesia and strategies to improve the implementation of payments for environmental services schemes to reduce agricultural land conversion. Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework is used to examine the implementation of Payments for environmental services. The implementation was able to run well through the establishment of institutions that regulate constitutional rules. The collaboration between the Government (as the user of environmental service) and farmers (as the service provider) should be declared and fully understood before the scheme is implemented. Therefore, full participation of all related parties was crucial in achieving the program’s goals. Collective understanding of the need to prevent land conversion and the coordination of stakeholders needs to be carried out sustainably.<br />Keywords: Land, conversion, environmental services, payment</p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p><strong>TANTANGAN IMPLEMENTASI PEMBAYARAN JASA LINGKUNGAN UNTUK PENCEGAHAN KONVERSI LAHAN PERTANIAN</strong></p><p>Mekanisme pembayaran jasa lingkungan diharapkan dapat memperkuat keputusan pemilik lahan pertanian untuk mempertahankannya. Mekanisme tersebut diharapkan dapat mencegah konversi lahan yang terjadi akibat apresiasi terhadap lahan pertanian secara ekonomi lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan penggunaan lainnya. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menelaah secara kritis tantangan implementasi pembayaran jasa lingkungan di Indonesia dan strategi meningkatkan implementasi skema pembayaran jasa lingkungan untuk mengurangi konversi lahan pertanian. Kerangka Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development digunakan untuk mengkaji implementasi pembayaran jasa lingkungan. Implementasi pembayaran jasa lingkungan dapat berjalan dengan baik melalui penetapan lembaga yang mengatur aturan konstitusional. Kontrak kerja sama antara pemerintah sebagai pengguna jasa lingkungan dengan petani sebagai penyedia jasa lingkungan harus disosialisasikan dan dipahami sebelum skema pembayaran jasa lingkungan dijalankan. Pelibatan partisipan secara penuh merupakan hal yang sangat penting dalam mencapai keberhasilan program. Pemahaman bersama tentang perlunya pencegahan konversi lahan dan koordinasi seluruh pemangku kepentingan terkait secara berkelanjutan sangat diperlukan.<br />Kata kunci: Lahan, konversi, jasa lingkungan, pembayaran</p>

Maintenance Costs, Outside Options and Optimal Ownership of a Public Good

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Grosjean
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Public Good Provision ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Outside Options ◽  
Good Provision

Abstract There has been much attention recently to public-private partnerships and the involvement of NGOs in public good provision. This paper re-examines the effect of ownership of a public good on investment incentives when contracts are incomplete. In the presence of maintenance costs, it is shown that the leading result in the literature by Besley and Ghatak (2001) does not carry through. In some circumstances, project ownership should be allocated to the party that values the project relatively less. The model is applied to the case of environmental conservation and investigates the advantages of Payments for Environmental Services from the point of view of investment incentives in conservation.

scholarly journals Tackling fragmentation of climat Tackling fragmentation of climate and biodiversity regimes complexes: the role ecosystem services and payment for environmental services : the role ecosystem services and payment for environmental services

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hrabanski Marie ◽  
Le Coq Jean-François
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Bridging Concept ◽  
History Of

In the realm of global governance, fragmentation is a recognized and recurrent feature and the multiple causalities underlying global governance issues along with their often cross-sectoral and cross-scale dynamics constitute major driving forces for fragmented governance. The article aims to identify the interactions between the elements of two regime complexes: climate and biodiversity. We argue that despite the different structuration and history of climate and biodiversity regime complexes, the notion of Ecosystem services, in developing specific policy instruments such as payments for environmental services, contributes to the synergy of these two complexes regimes. Indeed, ES concept has been an “integrative” and “bridging” concept that facilitated the creation of linkages between climate and biodiversity regimes complexes. First, the diffusion of the ecosystem services concept has been possible though bringing organizations involved in both regimes complexes. Second, the market based instruments for ecosystem services and biodiversity, especially payment for environmental services has been the operational setting that enables to create at national and/or local scales the operational synergies between both issues and regimes. Payment for environmental services can achieve jointly biodiversity conservation and some mitigation and adaptation objective

scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL FOR PRIORITIZATION RANKING OF MUNICIPALITIES FOR IMPLANTATION OF PAYMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES PROGRAMS

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
LEONARDO SILVA FERNANDES ◽  
◽  
ROSANGELA GARRIDO MACHADO BOTELHO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
The Government

abstract Is presents a methodology for ranking of municipalities from Rio de Janeiro for implementation payments for environmental services programs (PES). Variables were selected of Pesquisa de Informações Básicas Municipais from IBGE, grouping them into themes: Environmental Impacts, Institutional Apparatus and Environmental Actions. An index per theme was calculated and they were synthesized in the final index. Miracema and Nova Friburgo stood out with highest levels. Cambuci, Japeri, Areal, Magé, Comendador Levy Gasparian and Macuco stood out the lowest. The results show that the main environmental problem was the degradation of water resources, institutional apparatus is precarious and environmental actions were not directly relate to environmental impacts present. PES arrangement should consider payments made by the government, and the municipalities needs to improve yours institutional apparatus. The methodology used is easy to apply with potential for replication throughout Brazil and periodic update with each new edition of MUNIC.

The Role of Payments for Ecological Services in the Sustainable Development and Environmental Preservation of the Rainforest

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre A.F. Rivas ◽  
James R. Kahn ◽  
Carlos Edwar Freitas ◽  
Lawrence E. Hurd ◽  
Gregory Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Ecological Integrity ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystem ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Pristine Area ◽  
The Government

The county of Barcelos in the state of Amazonas, Brazil comprises 122 thousand square kilometers of land, composed of the rainforest, rivers and lakes of the middle Rio Negro watershed. The area is virtually free of deforestation and blessed with abundant fishery resources. It is widely regarded to be the best freshwater fishing location in the world and until recently was regarded as one of the global centers of the aquarium fish trade. Unfortunately, a variety of factors have kept the human population of this immense region from benefiting from these abundant natural resources. This paper outlines a path towards sustainable development of these resources that we developed in conjunction with the government of Barcelos, fishermen’s cooperatives, and indigenous associations. The paper illustrates how a payment for environmental services can jump start sustainable development in a pristine area and illustrate some of the factors that can impede such a system. Most discussion of payment for environmental services focuses on how such a payment can prevent deterioration of an area under current threat. The goal is to improve the quality of life of the citizens of the area in a way that eliminates future potential threats to the ecological integrity of the complex aquatic/terrestrial ecosystem. In addition to the development of human capital, a fishery and ecotourism management plan is developed that uses the revenue from the environmental tax to solve infrastructure, human capital and social capital needs. Although the official program of payment for environmental services was halted for local political reasons, the authors are in the process of establishing a voluntary program of payment for environmental services which will accomplish the same objectives.

scholarly journals Payments for environmental services, gendered livelihoods and forest management in Vietnam: a feminist political ecology perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-334
Author(s):  
Wouter Tuijnman ◽  
Mucahid M Bayrak ◽  
Pham Xuan Hung ◽  
Bui Duc Tinh
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Local Livelihoods ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Gendered Roles

Economic approaches to combat environmental degradation and deforestation have resulted in development initiatives such as the Payment for Environmental Services program (PES). This study deals with the effects of PES on women's livelihoods in Thuong Lo commune, Central Vietnam. Employing a feminist political ecology perspective and adopting a qualitative approach, we analyze the gendered roles, responsibilities and effects of PES on local livelihoods. We found that the women in our study portrayed different preferences and knowledge in relation to PES, forest management and livelihoods. Women are often excluded in PES projects due to a range of various socio-cultural factors.Keywords: Payments for Environmental Services; forest management; gender; women's empowerment; livelihoods; Central Vietnam; Co Tu people

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