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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 … Property, access and use rights relating to land tenure and water resources should be clearly established. …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… 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 … Enterprise Works/VITA, Forest Trends and The Land Tenure Center. The contents are the responsibility of the …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… 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 … http://www.rightsandresources.org/ Supporting forest tenure, policy, and market reforms. RUAF Foundation …
D1 - Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services
… 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 … services, enable PES contracts, secure ownership and tenure rights, and ensure monitoring and enforcement (UN, …