Instrumento de Pagamento por Serviço Ambiental: o caso do Ribeirão Abóbora

Cleidinaldo de Jesus Barbosa (), Antonio Queiroz (), Francis Lee Ribeiro () and José Guilherme Vidal ()
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Cleidinaldo de Jesus Barbosa: FACE-UFG
Francis Lee Ribeiro: PPAGRO-UFG
José Guilherme Vidal: FACE-UFG

No 64, Working papers - Textos para Discussao do Curso de Ciencias Economicas da UFG from Curso de Ciencias Economicas da Universidade Federal de Goias - FACE

Abstract: Payment for environmental services (PSA) has been highlighted as an economic instrument of environmental policy aimed at minimizing and / or recognizing negative and positive externalities, respectively. The objective of this research is to analyze the experience of payment for environmental service for water producers that has been developed next to the Ribeirão Abóbora microbasin, located in the municipality of Rio Verde - GO, in order to identify if the respective experience is aligned with the Economic fundamentals of the environmental policy instrument entitled PES. In this line, the hypothesis is assumed that such experience is, in fact, aligned with the economic fundamentals of an environmental policy instrument called PSA. The following characteristics of the analyzed scheme were identified: voluntary adherence; Indication of at least one environmental service; Payment association to the verification, by means of technical survey, of the provision of environmental service; Existence of conditionality and buyers of the environmental service. In this line, it is corroborated the hypothesis that such experience is aligned with the economic fundamentals of the environmental policy instrument called PSA.

Keywords: Payment for environmental service; National Water Agency; Water Producer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P28 Q1 Q2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2017-10
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