EXPERIÊNCIAS DE PAGAMENTOS POR SERVIÇOS AMBIENTAIS NO BRASIL

Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short period, an extraordinarily rich range of experiences has developed, with examples of the application of PES at a variety of scales, ranging from micro watersheds to entire states; in a variety of contexts, from remote forest frontier areas to the peri-urban fringe of megacities like Sao Paulo; and using a variety of approaches, using direct payments by users, sales to regulated and voluntary carbon markets, government funding, and mixes of these approaches. This book provides detailed case studies of the main Brazilian PES efforts to date.