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Institution/Author: PORRO, R.; BORNER, J.; JARVIS, A. ET AL.
Publisher: CIAT
Year: 2008
Language: English
Price: free
Price Colombia (in pesos): free
Scientific Contact: Andy Jarvis
This report aims to guide research and capacity-building priorities related to ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in the Amazon basin and eastern Andes. It is the result of extensive engagement with stakeholders in the region, combined with novel analysis of secondary data on poverty and ecosystem services such as water provision, biodiversity, and soil quality. The report presents a list of priority research challenges for the region, concluding that it is far more cost effective to prevent future degradation through incentive-based schemes that empower local communities rather than force people to comply authoritatively. Commissioned by the Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA), a UK-based initiative of DFID, NERC, and ESRC to promote multi-disciplinary research in sustainable ecosystem management, this study will be valuable to direct environmental-management policy at all levels. 120 p. 21.5 x 27.5 cm.
Keywords: Andean region; Amazonia; Ecosystems; Sustainability; Poverty; Water management; Climate; Land use; Technology; Social welfare
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