Last year we published an article where we evaluated the Costa Rican program of payments for environmental services inside an Indigenous territory using a system of principles, criteria and indicators. Since land is communal in these territories, the payments are administered by a local governing body and the money is used for the collective good, as opposed to individual interests as occurs outside these territories.
We are now considering making an evaluation of the performance of the program nationally -including both indigenous and private land owners. The goal is to establish a monitoring approach to periodically check how the PPES is performing.
Do you have examples of methodologies that evaluate the performance of PROGRAMS of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PPES) in your area, particularly at the national scale?
I hope we could have also a lively discussion under this fascinating and yet complex issue.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041614000072
Attached one example:
Corrbera et al. 2009. Institutional dimensions of Payments for Ecosystem Services:
An analysis of Mexico's carbon forestry programme. This is of course only one approach and perspective - Institutional one. But you can also find there some other useful references on PES.
Scullion, Jason, Craig W. Thomas, Kristina A. Vogt, Octavio Perez-Maqueo, and Miles G. Logsdon. 201. “Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Coatepec (Mexico) Using Remote Sensing and On-Site Interviews.” Environmental Conservation 38: 426-434.
Sabaheta and Craig,
Thank you for sharing these articles with Mexican experiences. Indeed these are interesting approaches that provide elements we were not yet considering.
YOUNG, C. E. F. & BAKKER, L. B. Payments for ecosystem services from watershed protection: A methodological assessment of the Oasis Project in Brazil. Natureza & Conservaçãoalt, v. 12, p. 71-78, 2014.DOI: 10.4322/natcon.2014.013. (http://www.ie.ufrj.br/images/gema/Gema_Artigos/2014/Young_Bakker_2014_Natureza_e_Conservacao_PES_Oasis-libre.pdf)
Hi Sergio, I think you may look for tropical countries experiences like Brazil, Mexico and Costa Rica futhermore, you may look for some experiences in another countries at TEEB iniciative (TEEB reports) or in the CBD site and AIchi goals. They have too much interesting cases. I'm attaching some of files, but I'm not certainly it its available to hep you, but I'm sure that you may start looking for some experiences of this countries.
Good luck, and if you wanna more help contact me. I have interest on this theme either.
Obrigado Samara. Estes sao muitos interesantes! There are experiences from multiple countries and I hope through this question we keep discovering them so we don´t start from scratch. Efforts such as ForCES by CIFOR and FSC are more recently looking at this, but there are many experiences from where we could barrow.
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