Ecosystem Services

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Asserting Indigenous Rights within REDD Agreements Victoria Tauli Corpuz, Founder and Executive Director, Tebtebba discusses the need for Indigenous Peoples to assert their recognized rights and for governments to uphold these commitments within REDD framework agreements.
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/28/9457.full The core idea of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is that the human condition is tightly linked to environmental condition. This assertion suggests that conservation and development projects should be able to achieve both ecological and social progress without detracting from their primary objectives. Whereas “win–win” projects that achieve both conservation and economic gains are a commendable goal, they are not easy to attain.

An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development

http://www.watershedmarkets.org/index.html

Watershed Markets

The services that watersheds provide – such as quantity and quality of water – are decreasing, yet demand for these services is increasing.

Watershed Markets

Trust fund (FONAG) created in 2000 to which water users in Quito (drinking water, agriculture, hydroelectric power (HEP), tourism, etc.) contribute with the aim of sponsoring watershed management projects, in the surrounding protected areas. http://www.watershedmarkets.org/casestudies/Ecuador_FONAG_E.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_services

Ecosystem services - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by natural ecosystems . Collectively, these benefits are known as ecosystem services and include products like clean drinking water and processes such as the decomposition of wastes. While scientists and environmentalists have discussed ecosystem services for decades, these services were popularized and their definitions formalized by the United Nations 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), a four-year study involving more than 1,300 scientists worldwide. [ 1 ] This grouped ecosystem services into four broad categories: provisioning , such as the production of food and water; regulating , such as the control of climate and disease; supporting , such as nutrient cycles and crop pollination; and cultural , such as spiritual and recreational benefits. As human populations grow, so do the resource demands imposed on ecosystems and the impacts of our global footprint .