The working for water programme Evolution of a payments for ecosystem services mechanism that addresses both poverty and ecosystem service delivery in South Africa

By J. Turpie, C. Marais, J. Blignaut. 2008

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Sven Wunder
2. L. Tacconi
3. B. Matzdorf
4. R. Muradian
5. E. Gómez‐Baggethun
6. U. Pascual
7. S. Scherr
8. M. Potschin

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. E. Gómez‐Baggethun
2. B. Matzdorf
3. R. Muradian
4. M. Potschin
5. L. Tacconi
6. U. Pascual
7. Josef Settele
8. J. Spangenberg

Citations in the corpus

• Managing private and public adaptation to climate change (2012, background): “In South Africa, a third-party government-funded agency (Working for Water) is serving as such an intermediary in the provisioning of ecosystem services (Turpie et al., 2008).”
• Impact of China's Large-Scale Ecological Restoration Program on the Environment and Society in Arid and Semiarid Areas of China: Achievements, Problems, Synthesis, and Applications (2011, background): “These plantations intercept stream flow, especially when close to watercourses (Turpie et al., 2008).”
• Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidence (2008, background): “On the other hand, all national-level public PES-like programs in developing countries (Costa Rica, China, Mexico, South Africa, Vietnam) employ pro-poor targeting measures; in the South African Work for Water program, radical pro-poor screening only makes the poor and unemployed eligible (Turpie et”
• An African account of ecosystem service provision : use, threats and policy options for sustainable livelihoods (2012, background): “For example, South Africa is chronically water stressed and is already importing water from neighboring countries; water availability is predicted to be the single greatest and most urgent development constraint (Turpie et al., 2008).”
• Ethical Considerations in On-Ground Applications of the Ecosystem Services Concept (2012, background): “…of the ES concept are now becoming widespread (e.g., Goldman et al. 2008, Tallis et al. 2008) and include payments-for-ES (PES) schemes (e.g., Turpie et al. 2008), spatial planning (e.g., Lubchenco and Sutley 2010), greening of national accounting (e.g., Boyd 2007), and directing strategic…”
• Are Socioeconomic Benefits of Restoration Adequately Quantified? A Meta‐analysis of Recent Papers (2000–2008) in Restoration Ecology and 12 Other Scientific Journals (2010, background): “The authors thank the South African Water Research Commission which provided financial support for this study, under contract K5/1803, The impact of reestablishing indigenous plants and restoring the natural landscape on sustainable rural employment and land productivity through payment for environm”
• Trends and future potential of payment for ecosystem services to alleviate rural poverty in developing countries. (2010, background): “Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica.”
• Exploring the links between equity and efficiency in payments for environmental services: A conceptual approach (2010, background): “However, this kind of PES might be competing with other poverty relief programs (Turpie et al., 2008) or ‘conditional cash transfers’ which are not linked to conservation efforts or environmental considerations (Wunder, 2008).”