Abstract

CASTRO-DIAZ, Ricardo. Territorial Implications of Payment of Ecosystem Services (PES) Programs in the North Andean Watersheds. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2014, vol.23, n.1, pp.61-74. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v23n1.32175.

Abstract In the context of the promotion of sustainable development, the struggle for the conservation of natural or partially intervened spaces has fostered programs that integrate economic growth, ecosystem flows, and the improvement of the socioeconomic conditions of local communities. In view of this, Latin American nations have created policy frameworks for the Payment of Ecosystem Services (PES), but there is an empirical void regarding the territorial implications of these programs on certain socio-ecological systems that are historically functional for the rural populations. The article identifies the "assumptions" fostered by PES programs in Latin America and carries out a theoretical analysis of the territorial implications of changes in land use for land titling projects, power and equilibrium, community structures, exclusion and social inequality, the reattribution of meaning to territorial elements, and the logic of the new market.

Keywords : natural capital; North Andean watersheds; territorial implications; green markets; payment for ecosystem services.

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