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PP0279-10
TitleLocal Government-Led PES for Watershed Protection: Cases from the Philippines
AuthorDelia Catacutan, Grace B.Villamor and Caroline Duque-Piñon
EditorLaura Keenan, Ujol Sherchan and Sunita Chaudhary
Year2010
Parent TitleMountain Forum Bulletin
PublisherMountain Forum Secretariat, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), IUCN, ICIMOD and the World Bank
City of PublicationKathmandu, Nepal
VolumeX
Issue1
Pages37-39
Call NumberPP0279-10
Abstract:
Progress towards ‘payments for environmental services’, or PES, is grounded in an understanding of the conscious and subconscious models used and applied by policy makers and citizens. Although many forest policies have incentive tendencies, variants of PES schemes have evolved that follow a more ‘regulatory’ framework, rather than being based on business-like principles of conditionality and voluntary transactions. In developing countries, PES schemes that are based on top-down regulatory sanctions may be unsustainable as a result of insufficient resources and weak implementation strategies. A combination of a business-like model based on voluntary transactions has more potential if markets for ES are also increased.
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