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Local Markets for Payments for Environmental Services: Can Small Rural Communities Self-Finance Watershed Protection?

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  • Michael Kaplowitz
  • Frank Lupi
  • Oscar Arreola

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Payment for environmental service (PES) programs are innovative approaches for watershed and natural resources management that increasingly are being used around the world. Most well-studied PES examples rely predominately, if not entirely, on large governmental and outside non-governmental organizations for financial and management assistance. We examine the potential for using a locally-financed PES scheme in a small, agricultural community in a developing country as a means to preserve environmental services of watersheds, namely clean drinking water. A dichotomous choice, contingent valuation survey is used to examine the community’s demand for protection of the headwaters of the nearby river, the source of their drinking water. The survey results demonstrate local water users’ substantial willingness to pay for increased protection of the watershed environmental services. We find that a local-market PES scheme for watershed services, even in a relatively low-income context, may be sufficient to protect ecosystem services independent of external financial resources. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

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  • Michael Kaplowitz & Frank Lupi & Oscar Arreola, 2012. "Local Markets for Payments for Environmental Services: Can Small Rural Communities Self-Finance Watershed Protection?," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 26(13), pages 3689-3704, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:waterr:v:26:y:2012:i:13:p:3689-3704
    DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0097-y
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