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… 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 … Basin in Australia, a payment scheme is used to finance restoration of natural vegetation as a strategy for …

… V/6 of 2000 Principle 1: The objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal … Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Paris Convention), the 1979 Convention on … land-based activities” and to “ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland …

… 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 … beneficiaries to service providers for the protection or restoration – of watershed services; Cost-sharing among …

… will inevitably involve trade-offs among the different land-use types, each of which provides a different mix of … managed landscapes, where agriculture is often a major land use. Ecosystem services, however, can often highlight … There could be a whole lot of different competing land uses that would compromise a sustainable supply of …