Evaluación de esquemas de pagos por servicios ambientales asociados a áreas estratégicas del río Magdalena, mercantilismo de emociones

Abstract

Three cases of Payment for Environmental Services-PES schemes were evaluated, one in Huila, the Colombian mountains and the birth of the Magdalena River, associated with the mechanism of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation -REDD; another in the Guarinó River basin, tributary of the middle basin of the Magdalena River, with an initial PSA scheme but with the possibility of adding economic incentives in carbon bonds; and the third, a modification of PSA, which started in the basins of the Negro and Nare rivers, but which has been extended to several jurisdictions of Environmental Authorities. The evaluation of the three PES schemes was carried out using the previously defined criteria of Wunder (Wunder, 2006) and Blanco (Blanco, sf), with respect to their formulation, structuring and valuation assumptions of ecosystem goods and services, also a legal analysis was carried out on the origin of trading with common goods and finally market criteria were evaluated, in a prioritization or decision matrix (Vilar et al., 2010) to establish differentials that affect the success of each case as economic and sustainable mechanisms and the reasons why they have higher levels of acceptance in society.