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Payment schemes for hydrological ecosystem services as a political instrument for the sustainable management of natural resources and poverty reduction – a case study from Belén, Nicaragua

Hack, Jochen (2021)
Payment schemes for hydrological ecosystem services as a political instrument for the sustainable management of natural resources and poverty reduction – a case study from Belén, Nicaragua.
In: Advances in Geosciences, 2010, 27
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00018902
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Payment schemes for hydrological ecosystem services as a political instrument for the sustainable management of natural resources and poverty reduction – a case study from Belén, Nicaragua
Language: English
Date: 2021
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2010
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
Journal or Publication Title: Advances in Geosciences
Volume of the journal: 27
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00018902
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Origin: Secondary publication service
Abstract:

The importance of intact ecosystems for human-wellbeing as well as the dependence on functions and services they provide is undoubted. But still neither the costs of ecosystem degradation nor the benefits from ecosystem functions and services appear on socio-economic balance sheets when development takes place. Consequently overuse of natural resources is socio-economically promoted by conventional resource management policies and external effects (externalities), equally positives and negatives, remain unregarded. In this context the potential of payments for hydrological ecosystem services as a political instrument to foster sustainable natural resource use, and rural development shall be investigated. This paper introduces the principle concept of such payments, presents a case study from Nicaragua and highlights preliminary effects of the application of this instrument on natural resource use and development.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-189026
Classification DDC: 500 Science and mathematics > 550 Earth sciences and geology
600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering and machine engineering
Divisions: 11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences > Earth Science > Ecological Engineering
13 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences > Institute of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering > Engineering Hydrology and Water Management
Date Deposited: 03 Sep 2021 12:40
Last Modified: 17 Nov 2022 11:39
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/18902
PPN: 501688757
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