Environment for Development Initiative (EfD-Mak) Centre on 7th November 2019 hosted its first policy dialogue on Governance and Natural Resources at the Senate Conference Room Makerere University. The…
EfD-Mak Centre held a one-day training on Environmental Valuation, Evaluation and Accounting on 27th September, 2019. The training was held at the College of Business and Management Studies (CoBAMS…
Makerere University on 29th August 2019 launched the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD-Mak) Centre, the first of its kind in the country. The ceremony held at the Senior Common Room was…
The seventh EfD Forest Collaborative workshop, held during the 13th Annual Meeting of EfD. Forest Collaborative Workshop Agenda Presentations: Concept Note: Mexico - Nov. 2019 - Danae Hernandez…
Highlights
Expected mainstreaming of the Ecosystem Services Approach (ESA) has not been fulfilled.
Sectors involved in ESA and their relationships drive pathways of mainstreaming in Latin America.
Incorporation of knowledge and consensus over values are key factors for mainstreaming.
Researchers need to adopt new roles for an effective mainstreaming of ESA.
Opportunities for new roles lay in the interfaces among sectors involved in ES management.
Understanding the influence of social variables on a beneficiary´s vulnerability to environmental change might improves the design of policies of mitigation and adaptation to global, regional and local environmental change. In the context of socio-ecological systems, there is a wide variety of conceptual and methodological approaches for the assessment of social vulnerability in face of environmental change. However, there is a need for making these approaches more operational.
Literature in the vulnerability of socio-ecological systems has highlighted the need for considering Social Perception of Risk (SPR) as a determinant of social vulnerability. This paper combines quantitative and qualitative approaches for analyzing SPR in the context of a socio-ecological system. We analyze the SPR of loss or degradation of water provision and erosion control in the Northern Andes (Riogrande basin, Antioquia-Colombia).
Globally, there is an increasing level of funding targeted to pay farmers and rural communities for the provision of ecosystem services, for example through Payments for Ecosystem or Environmental Services (PES) schemes and pilots for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, and maintaining or enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD +). Therefore, there is growing interest in understanding the effects of economic incentives on participants' behavior and motivations.
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes incentivise landowners to maintain, restore or enhance ecosystem services. Currently, there are more than 550 active PES programmes worldwide, expected to support conservation efforts and, ideally, to also reduce rural poverty. In this article we explore the discourses that underpin PES debates and practice in Colombia, a late-comer to the PES agenda in Latin-America. Informed by interviews with PES actors and Q-methodology (n = 41), we identify three PES discourses: conservation conduit, contextual conservation, and inconvenient conservation.
