Instrumento de Pagamento por Serviço Ambiental: o caso do Ribeirão Abóbora

Payment for environmental services (PSA) has been highlighted as an economic instrument of environmental policy aimed at minimizing and / or recognizing negative and positive externalities, respectively. The objective of this research is to analyze the experience of payment for environmental service for water producers that has been developed next to the Ribeirão Abóbora microbasin, located in the municipality of Rio Verde - GO, in order to identify if the respective experience is aligned with the Economic fundamentals of the environmental policy instrument entitled PES. In this line, the hypothesis is assumed that such experience is, in fact, aligned with the economic fundamentals of an environmental policy instrument called PSA. The following characteristics of the analyzed scheme were identified: voluntary adherence; Indication of at least one environmental service; Payment association to the verification, by means of technical survey, of the provision of environmental service; Existence of conditionality and buyers of the environmental service. In this line, it is corroborated the hypothesis that such experience is aligned with the economic fundamentals of the environmental policy instrument called PSA.