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Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services
… 2. Valuing and Managing Watershed Services 21 2.1 Linking land and water use to downstream benefits 21 2.2 Valuation of … units for water management A watershed is the area of land that feeds water into a river, through the process of … only those threatened by or suffering from the impacts of degradation. The fundamental basis for this shift is the …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… The traditional approach to deterring environmental degradation has been to establish a legal norm coupled with a … when numerous upstream landholders dedicate their land to intensive agricultural or cattle-ranching activities, or when forest owners convert their forest land to agricultural land. In these cases, down- stream water …