We have compared three cases of payments for water-related environmental services (PES) in Central America, in terms of socioeconomic background, opportunity costs of forest conservation and stakeholders’ perceptions on the conditions of water resources and other issues. We found that, in...

Programs regarding to energy saving in Brasil arised by the early 80's, from the concern with oil products consumption. The situation has changed and electricity is growing in importance when energy conservation is discussed.

At the Davos forum of January 2014, a group of 14 countries pledged to launch negotiations on liberalising trade in "green goods" (also known as `environmental goods'(EGs)), focussing on the elimination of tariffs for an "APEC list" of 54 products. The paper shows that the "Davos group", with an...

Barriers to trade in Environmental Goods (EGs) and Environmental Services (ESs) are documented for a large sample of countries and compared with barriers to trade in other goods and other services. Some progress at reduction in barriers has occurred at the national, regional and sectoral levels...

This paper attempts to give a spatial and temporal overview of water management in India. It traces how people and the successive regimes made choices across space and time from a wide range of water control and distribution technologies. The paper divides the water management in India into four...

The Jordan Lake Stakeholder Project (JLSP) was a public participation project convened by the NC Department of Water Quality (DWQ) in response to high levels of nutrients found in Jordan Lake, a reservoir in the central piedmont of North Carolina. The DWQ is a frequent convener of such time- and...

Computer-based models and Decision Support Systems have become standard tools for water quality management, and many are used by policy planners. Most models are developed in a research environment, have stringent input data requirements, and are becoming increasingly complex. In the early...

Local research in the Manupali watershed, with about 60% of its land area belonging to the upland municipality of Lantapan, Bukidnon, found that water quantity and quality declined due to soil erosion and domestic waste contamination. As population grows and agriculture becomes more integrated...