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Ecosystem Services and Water Funds: Conservation Approaches that Benefit People and Biodiversity
This article discusses water‐related ecosystem services which are the benefits people derive from ecosystems. By advancing ecosystem services as a justification for nature conservation, people's well‐being becomes central to the conservation discussion, thereby enhancing the potential to expand conservation efforts into landscapes that otherwise might be excluded (Goldman et al, 2008). The Nature Conservancy, with partners, is advancing a strategy that tries to capture regulation and purification service values and use the values to advance conservation in priority watersheds, particularly in Latin America. These projects, called water funds, invest voluntary financial contributions by water users into a fund to be used for watershed conservation for securing protected areas and for managing the landscape. The article discusses the suitability of a region in the northern part of South America that spans much of Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela for establishing water fund projects.
Ecosystem Services and Water Funds: Conservation Approaches that Benefit People and Biodiversity
This article discusses water‐related ecosystem services which are the benefits people derive from ecosystems. By advancing ecosystem services as a justification for nature conservation, people's well‐being becomes central to the conservation discussion, thereby enhancing the potential to expand conservation efforts into landscapes that otherwise might be excluded (Goldman et al, 2008). The Nature Conservancy, with partners, is advancing a strategy that tries to capture regulation and purification service values and use the values to advance conservation in priority watersheds, particularly in Latin America. These projects, called water funds, invest voluntary financial contributions by water users into a fund to be used for watershed conservation for securing protected areas and for managing the landscape. The article discusses the suitability of a region in the northern part of South America that spans much of Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela for establishing water fund projects.
Ecosystem Services and Water Funds: Conservation Approaches that Benefit People and Biodiversity
Conservancy, Nature (author) / Goldman, Rebecca L. (author)
Journal ‐ American Water Works Association ; 101 ; 20-22
2009-12-01
3 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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