Upper watershed, Río Jequetepeque, Peru

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Land-Water Linkages
in
Rural Watersheds

Lower watershed, Río Jequetepeque, Peru

This programme explores:

  • to what extent different land use systems and practices affect hydrological regime and water quality, and at which scales and contexts the impacts are of importance
  • instruments to value the resulting benefits and costs to resource users
  • institutional, economic, regulatory, and social mechanisms which can be applied to achieve an equitable sharing of these benefits and costs by upstream and downstream resource users in a watershed context.

On this page you find:


Land-Water Linkages Case Study Series,  documentation of experiences with:

 - economic valuation of hydrologic services from land use;
 - cooperation mechanisms to share the resulting benefits and costs between upstream and downstream people in rural watersheds.

Latin American Regional Electronic Forum on Payments for Environmental Services in Watersheds (April/May 2004)

Final report (PDF, 320 KB)
Background documentation. (Spanish)



Regional Forum for Payments for Environmental Services in Watersheds Arequipa, Perú, 9-12 June 2003.

Final report:
 - View in HTML
 - Download as PDF (PDF, 3.2 MB)
Background documentation. (Spanish)



Electronic Workshop "Land-Water Linkages in Rural Watersheds" (September/October 2000)

Final report:
 - View in HTML
 - Download as PDF (PDF, 2.2 MB)
Background documentation.

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