Payments for Watershed Protection Services: Emerging Lessons from the Philippines
| Autor: | Rafaela Jane P. Delfino, Daniel Gaitán Cremaschi, Rodel D. Lasco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Watershed
Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION Information Dissemination Conditionality Development Payment Ecosystem services Watershed management Incentive Local government business General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sustainable Development. 6 |
| ISSN: | 1913-9071 1913-9063 |
| Popis: | There is growing interest on payments for ecosystem services (PES) in developing countries including the Philippines. Watersheds have been degraded through deforestation and subsequent conversion to other land cover, principally for agriculture. In the last decade, several Payments for Watershed Services schemes have been implemented and this paper is an attempt to assess the form of incentives or rewards that have been provided to upland communities in a number of sites under different management leadership in the Philippines. We reviewed four cases specifically related to watershed services in the: 1) Bakun Watershed, 2) Maasin Watershed, 3) Sibuyan Watershed, and 4) Baticulan Watershed. The case studies of varying stages of implementation has shown that the chances of success of PES schemes in promoting watershed conservation and rehabilitation as well as in improving the livelihoods of upland communities is constrained by incomplete information and knowledge about the interaction between ecosystem properties and provision of services, and the difficulty in establishing voluntary participation and conditionality of payments. In this paper, we argued that institutions may enable or hinder the successful implementation of PES. The role of the local government as intermediaries is crucial in the process of establishing PES more particularly in the information dissemination and education of the key stakeholders. The case studies also showed how PES programs are reinforced by the presence of non-government organizations. |
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