Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument

Payment for Environmental Services (PES) Programs in Latin America and Mexico have dominated the market-based environmental policy realm in the past decade due to their new paradigm for solving the problem for ecosystem degradation. There are at least three reasons why a careful examination of the d...

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Autor: Berger García, Marco Antonio
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:México
Recursos:Universidad de Guadalajara
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PES
environmental policy
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spelling Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy InstrumentBerger García, Marco Antoniopayment for environmental servicesPESenvironmental policyPayment for Environmental Services (PES) Programs in Latin America and Mexico have dominated the market-based environmental policy realm in the past decade due to their new paradigm for solving the problem for ecosystem degradation. There are at least three reasons why a careful examination of the design and implementation of these types of programs is important for the environmental policy discussion in developing world contexts. First and foremost, PES schemes offer several advantages: they are cost-effective, they are institutionally simpler, and they are potentially good for poverty reduction. Second, PES schemes embrace the user-based principle instead of the polluter-pays principle and, in some cases, they have elements of a conditional cash transfer program. Third, from a geographical perspective, PES programs are lexible and adaptive to local, regional, national and international scales. Despite the advantages from a policy design perspective, PES programs present a set of issues and barriers at the implementation stage, especially within developing world contexts where a set of preconditions must be in place in order for PES programs to work well.Universidad de Guadalajara.2016-11-01T21:32:29Z2016-11-01T21:32:29Z2015-06info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleBerger García, M. (2015). Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument. Journal of Public Governance and Policy: Latin American Review, 1(1), 23 - 41. Recuperado de http://revistascientificas.udg.mx/index.php/JPGPLA/article/view/3418En trámitehttp://repositorio.cualtos.udg.mx:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/573reponame:Repositorio UDG CUALTOSinstname:Universidad de Guadalajarainstacron:UDGenJournal of Public Governance and Policy: Latin American Review;Vol. 1, Núm. 1info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.cualtos.udg.mx:123456789/5732024-10-11T19:20:16Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument
title Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument
spellingShingle Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument
Berger García, Marco Antonio
payment for environmental services
PES
environmental policy
title_short Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument
title_full Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument
title_fullStr Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument
title_full_unstemmed Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument
title_sort Payment for Environmental Services Programs in Latin America as an Innovative Environmental Policy Instrument
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Berger García, Marco Antonio
author Berger García, Marco Antonio
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv payment for environmental services
PES
environmental policy
topic payment for environmental services
PES
environmental policy
description Payment for Environmental Services (PES) Programs in Latin America and Mexico have dominated the market-based environmental policy realm in the past decade due to their new paradigm for solving the problem for ecosystem degradation. There are at least three reasons why a careful examination of the design and implementation of these types of programs is important for the environmental policy discussion in developing world contexts. First and foremost, PES schemes offer several advantages: they are cost-effective, they are institutionally simpler, and they are potentially good for poverty reduction. Second, PES schemes embrace the user-based principle instead of the polluter-pays principle and, in some cases, they have elements of a conditional cash transfer program. Third, from a geographical perspective, PES programs are lexible and adaptive to local, regional, national and international scales. Despite the advantages from a policy design perspective, PES programs present a set of issues and barriers at the implementation stage, especially within developing world contexts where a set of preconditions must be in place in order for PES programs to work well.
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