Paying for ecological services in Ecuador : the socio bosque program in kichwa communities of Chimborazo, Ecuador
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2021-01
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This research shows that Indigenous communities have found ways to implement their own agendas within the framework of payment for ecosystem service (PES) programs as a means of sustaining livelihoods and maintaining ties to land, place, and space, as well as continuing their traditional connections with the communal, natural, and divine aspects of nature. The thesis draws from literature on political ecology, PES, market-based perspectives on environmental conservation, decolonization, Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (IEK), and environmental governance to understand the impacts of a state-led, institutionalized PES program, “Socio Bosque” on Kichwa Indigenous communities in Chimborazo, Ecuador.
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ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, DEFORESTATION, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE, REGULATION, LAND REFORM, REDD+, STATE PARTICIPATION, ECUADOR, SOUTH AMERICA