One size does not fit all: Natural infrastructure investments within the Latin American Water Funds Partnership

Bremer, Leah L.; Auerbach, Dan A.; Goldstein, Joshua; Vogl, Adrian L.; Shemie, Daniel; Kroeger, Timm; Nelson, Joanna L.; Benítez, Silvia; Calvache, Alejandro; Guimarães, João Luis Bittencourt; Herron, Colin; Higgins, Jonathan; Klemz, Cláudio; León, Jorge; Lozano, Juan Sebastián; Moreno, Pedro H.; Núñez, Francisco Parra; Veiga, Fernando; Tiepolo, Gilberto

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.12.006

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“…Through payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes, many environmental programs have received extra and decisive economic support for covering their costs. In addition, the providers-farmers, indigenous communities, and so forth-are finally being rewarded for their contribution to the provision of ES to society at large (Bremer et al, 2016;Taffarello, Calijuri, Viani, Marengo, & Mendiondo, 2017;Wunder, 2007). Although an increasing enthusiasm has elected PES as one of the most promising strategies to achieve sustainability 1 Departamento de Biotecnologia e Produção Vegetal e Animal, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Araras, Brazil (Redford & Adams, 2009), it is evident that there is not enough money available thus far to pay all stakeholders involved in the provision of ES.…”

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Synergism Between Payments for Water-Related Ecosystem Services, Ecological Restoration, and Landscape Connectivity Within the Atlantic Forest Hotspot

Viani

Braga

Ribeiro

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Tropical Conservation Science

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Restoration projects designed to promote one ecosystem service may have synergistic benefits to other services. Therefore, bundling them can be an effective way to maximize the return to the investments in programs of payments for ecosystem services (PES). Here, we investigated the additional gain of restoration actions-which were implemented as part of a PES program to protect a key watershed for water supply-on increasing functional landscape connectivity in the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern Brazil. Using a landscape ecology approach, we estimated the amount of forest cover before (2006) and after (2012) restoration activities by the PES program and changes in structural and functional landscape connectivity for birds with varying gap-crossing capabilities. Forest cover increased from 42.5 to 86.1 ha after the implementation of restoration projects by the PES program. In the simulated scenarios of landscape connectivity, the mean patch size of functionally connected forest increased by 1,034%, 392%, 248%, and 94% for species with gap-crossing capabilities of 0, 20, 40, and 60 m, respectively. Our results highlight the potential for incorporating biodiversity conservation objectives into PES projects primarily designed to enhance water-related ecosystem services.

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Synergism Between Payments for Water-Related Ecosystem Services, Ecological Restoration, and Landscape Connectivity Within the Atlantic Forest Hotspot

Viani

Braga

Ribeiro

et al. 2018

Tropical Conservation Science

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“…One mechanism promoted by TNC to support and finance FLR activities is through a water fund, a collaborative finance and governance mechanism that connects downstream beneficiaries of water purification and habitat restoration services to upstream landholders who provide those services. To date, Colombia has six operational water funds, with a total investment of over US$ 9m in watershed conservation strategies (Bremer et al, 2016).…”

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Landscapes, at your service: applications of the Restoration Opportunities Optimization Tool (ROOT)

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“…Water funds have increased rapidly in popularity as a conservation strategy around the globe, particularly in Latin America (Bremer et al . ). Water Funds are characterized by multiple watershed stakeholders investing in a collective action fund to finance watershed conservation.…”

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“…; Bremer et al . ). Water funds are also a relatively recent strategy so there is not yet a detailed body of evidence about their social and environmental impacts, and it is therefore particularly important to complement their implementation with appropriate monitoring.…”

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Fuzzy Models to Inform Social and Environmental Indicator Selection for Conservation Impact Monitoring

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Bremer

Calvache

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Conservation projects increasingly aim to deliver both environmental and social benefits. To monitor the success of these projects, it is important to pick indicators for which there is a reasonable expectation of change as a result of the project, and which resonate with project stakeholders. Results chains are widely used in conservation to describe the hypothesized pathways of causal linkages between conservation interventions and desired outcomes. We illustrate how, with limited additional information, results chains can be turned into fuzzy models of social-ecological systems, and how these models can be used to explore the predicted social and environmental impacts of conservation actions. These predictions can then be compared with the interests of stakeholders in order to identify good indicators of project success. We illustrate this approach by using it to select indicators for a water fund, an increasingly popular and multiobjective conservation strategy.

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One size does not fit all: Natural infrastructure investments within the Latin American Water Funds Partnership

Cited by 100 publications

References 46 publications

Synergism Between Payments for Water-Related Ecosystem Services, Ecological Restoration, and Landscape Connectivity Within the Atlantic Forest Hotspot

Synergism Between Payments for Water-Related Ecosystem Services, Ecological Restoration, and Landscape Connectivity Within the Atlantic Forest Hotspot

Landscapes, at your service: applications of the Restoration Opportunities Optimization Tool (ROOT)

Fuzzy Models to Inform Social and Environmental Indicator Selection for Conservation Impact Monitoring

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