Environmental Protection Through Environmental Services Payments

Abstract

To provide goods and services to human's ecosystems need water like fish, timber, food, grains, among others. Similarly, are

Payment for Environmental Services: A Further Analysis to a Comparative Study of the Brazilian and Argentine Perspectives

“…In Brazil in the city of extreme in Minas Gerais, through a municipal law the conservative water project aimed to preserve the fountains and springs in the municipality located on the watershed of the possessions. The watershed waters comprise one of the major water sources of the Cantareira system, which supplies the metropolitan region of São Paulo under a Sao Paulo state perspective to be discussed ahead (SILVA et al, 2017).…”

“…This requires the promotion of ecosystem restoration and protection to maintain relevant environmental services sustainably. Environmental services is the performance of activities provided by natural ecosystems for the benefit of human society (SILVA et al, 2017;JUNTTI, 2009;ARRIAGADA et PERRINGS, 2009).…”

“…The idea of payment, whether in a monetary or non-monetary sense, for environmental services derived from nature is rooted in the recognition of ecosystems as environmental service providers (CELESTE et al, 2020). Ecosystems must be maintained, but if their monetary value is not recognized, they are not taken into account by decisionmaking processes (SILVA et al, 2017). The concept of ecosystems services (ES) frames the relationship between society and nature in terms of the functions of ecological systems that directly or indirectly benefit humans (MEA, 2006;PORRAS et al, 2013).…”

“…The environmental service payment exists as an incentive to conserve the environment cost-effectively to land rural owner or small forest owners and farmers. Becoming an alternative income for the suppliers of the environmental services provided (SILVA et al, 2017).…”

Valoração econômica do trecho do Rio Tocantins referente à Orla Sebastião Miranda, Marabá/PA

“…Ainda que alguns destes bens e serviços possuam valor econômico, como água e solo, outros (Ex. : regulação climática) não são incluídos no sistema de preços do comércio (SILVA et al, 2017). Logo, a quantia monetária atribuída é inadequada, e o custo ou benefício deles não representa o valor social dos mesmos, ou seja, não contempla a real grandeza da produção ou consumo, e isso gera a sociedade externalidades negativas que revelam as deficiências nos preços de mercado, quando o sistema não reflete os resultados de determinada atividade (LIMA et al, 2016;SOUZA, 2016).…”