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REECS'
regular bulletin that provides information on
developments in the field of Payments for Environmental
Services in the Philippines and elsewhere. |
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now
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ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT:
Selected Readings in the Philippines
Edited
by:
Herminia A. Francisco
Marian S. de los Angeles
This book is the first comprehensive anthology to deal with the environmental resource management problems of the Philippines from an economic perspective.
Using such tools as valuation and cost-benefit analysis, it assesses the severity of a wide range of problems and suggests practical, low solutions.
CONTACT
US FOR YOUR FREE COPY
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Ms. Eugene C. Bennagen, a
REECS researcher and in-house consultant, and Ms. Janet Arlene R. Amponin, REECS
research associate, attended the Global Event on Payments/Rewards for
Environmental Services held on January 22-27, 2007 at the Grand Legi Hotel,
Lombok, Indonesia. The week-long event which contained a 2-day scientific
conference, training on environmental services, practice workshops, information
markets, fieldtrips, and exhibition and poster presentation, gathered experts
and practitioners in America, Africa, Europe and Asia of the concept of Payments
for Environmental Services. At the information markets, Ms. Amponin presented on
the experiences and lessons learned in the conduct of an exploratory study on
PES at the Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape, Cagayan, conducted under
the Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM) Program together with
the Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands. In
addition, on-going PES-related efforts particularly under the Swiss Reinsurance
Company – funded project entitled Payments for Environmental Services as an
Approach to Sustainable Watershed Management and Poverty Alleviation in the
Philippine Uplands, were also imparted. |
 Ms. Eugene C. Bennagen,
President and in-house consultant of REECS, presented the “Policy and
Institutional Concerns in On-going Philippine Payments for Watershed Services (PWS)
Projects” in the recently concluded workshop on “Costing for Environmental
Services: Implications to Policies” at the Seamao-Innotech last March 9, 2007.
The said activity was organized by the leading proponents of payments for
environmental services (PES) activities in the country: DENR, RUPES, ICRAF,
REECS, UP-CIDS, UPLB-FDC and WWF-Philippines. The primary objective of this
latest collaboration of the different concerned organizations is to map a policy
advocacy strategy to enable and mainstream the implementation of payments for
environmental services in the Philippines. Members of various national and local
government offices, NGOs and POs, academe/research institutions, host
communities, private sector and donors attended the workshop. |
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 PAYMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AS AN APPROACH TO
SUSTAINABLE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN THE PHILIPPINE
UPLANDS
This winning project of
the 2006 International Resource Award for Sustainable Watershed Management
was submitted by the Resources, Environment and Economics
Center for Studies, Inc. (REECS) and focuses on sustainable watershed
management and poverty alleviation in the Philippine Uplands. The project is
based on a “Payments for environmental services (PES)” system, compensating the
local people for their upstream activities to the benefit of the downstream
communities, such as domestic water users, farmers and tourists. The project
foresees training support on sustainable upland farming practices and places
strong emphasis on practical dialogue between providers, beneficiaries and
intermediaries.
Go to
www.swissre.com
for more information about the award.
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REECS prepared a brief write-up
summarizes the result of the economic
valuation of the impacts on the Guimaras
Island ecosystem and population from the
recent M/V Solar oil spill conducted by
REECS over the past week. REECS would
like to emphasize that the estimates on
the economic costs of the oil spill
reported here are preliminary and
tentative and will be updated as more
information on affected areas and
population are reported by the National
Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC).
Four cost categories are included: loss
of environmental services; loss in
recreational values/tourism; clean-up
costs; and health costs. An important
cost component not included is the
compensatory damages in terms of
livelihood losses.
