Publication
                                                
                        Payments for ecosystem services : legal and institutional frameworks
                Year:
                2009
              
                      
                                              Abstract                        
            
      
                                        
                Analysis and engagement with partners working on ecosystem services transactions, policies and laws over the past 10 years have demonstrated a clear need to better understand the legal and institutional frameworks that have the potential to promote or hinder the development of payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes, as well as the complex legal considerations that affect ecosystem services projects. This report has been prepared to analyze the legal and institutional frameworks of water-related PES schemes and projects in four Andean countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.
 
                   
                     
                    