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Assessing the implementation of Payments for Hydrological Ecosystem Services in Peru through a bottom‐up stakeholder analysis: Case study of Lima, Peru
Author(s) -
Galende Sánchez Ester,
Angulo Núñez Oscar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world water policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2639-541X
DOI - 10.1002/wwp2.12003
Subject(s) - ecosystem services , stakeholder , upstream (networking) , business , operationalization , environmental planning , environmental resource management , payment , stakeholder engagement , payment for ecosystem services , context (archaeology) , sustainability , government (linguistics) , stakeholder analysis , downstream (manufacturing) , livelihood , sustainable development , ecosystem , agriculture , geography , political science , economics , engineering , finance , ecology , marketing , law , biology , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , telecommunications , public relations , epistemology
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) represent a revolutionary conservation paradigm aimed at providing a sustainable financing for conservation, assuring the continued supply of ecosystem services (ES) for different beneficiaries while having the opportunity to improve sustainable livelihoods of rural communities providing these services. Whereas PES schemes are increasingly being developed all over the world, Peru has created a national legislative framework to operationalize them, called Rewarding Mechanisms for Ecosystem Services (MRSE), with an especial development on Hydrological Ecosystem Services (MRSEH) to sustain good quality and quantity of drinking potable water for urban areas. However, a lack of coordination, miscommunications, and unintegrated decision making process among the wide variety of stakeholders involved, especially urban (downstream water users) and rural stakeholders (ES upstream providers) has caused several challenges for the government to be implemented. This paper proposes an innovative methodology tool aimed to overcome these challenges, based on an in‐depth bottom‐up stakeholder analysis able to identify and understand those problems, and proposes sustainable win‐win upstream–downstream interventions to carry out in the future. A detailed review of the available literature on bottom‐up stakeholder participation methodology and a deep understanding of the MRSEH socio context were completed. We conclude that this methodology has the potential to be applied in any MRSEH of Peru at the design stage and also recommend that more research related with MRSEH stakeholder engagement should be conducted.