Mapping and monitoring of ecosystem services in central Veracruz, Mexico, to strengthen payments for ecosystem services and promote integrated watersheds management.
16 agosto 2016
Pierre Mokondoko
Robert H. Manson
Lorelí Carranza Jiménez
2016
Mexico in general and, Veracruz state in particular, has been actively developing Payments for Hydrological Services (PHS) programs in response to marked environmental deterioration and concomitant socioeconomic impacts. The growth of these programs has created an interesting laboratory for their evaluation. The issue of targeting of PHS to maximize the impacts of these programs is being actively debated in the literature. The overall effect of PHS programs in Mexico on ecosystem service provision may be limited by a lack of guidance as to where payments should be made within watersheds in previously determined eligible areas.
