Research on payment for forest environmental services at the Coc lake protected forest in Thai Nguyen province (Vietnam)
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Nguyen Thi Dong [1]
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[1] INIA
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- Localización: XI young researchers meeting on conservation and sustainable use of forest systems / coord. por Elena Hidalgo Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Dorado Reyes, Ainhoa Iñiguez Soto, Diego A. Damián Carrión, Samuel Gato Martín, Guillermo Jové Alcalde, Raúl Arcadio Fernández González, 2017, ISBN 978-84-617-9574-1, pág. 18
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The Coc Lake protected forest in Thai Nguyen province, Viet Nam with 3,453 ha area has important roles such as soil conservation, erosion control, water sources protection, climate regulation and maintaining ecosystem balance. However, the forest has been degrading becauseof lacking financial resources and conflicts of interest between the parties involved. This research aimed at establishing new financial mechanism which would contribute to Coc Lake protection.The estimated payment of forest environmental services at the Coc Lake was 512,832 $/year, of which payment for landscape and carbon absorption services were 88,195 $/year and 424,637 $/year, respectively. Research provided a payment mechanism for forest environmental services, an amount of money which people could receive for participating in the forest protection at 171.30$/ha/year. The bigger amount came from carbon absorbing service, landscape services was only about 29.46 $/ha/year. If there was only landscape service valuation, it could have been difficult attracting local people to participate in forest protection because this payment level was lower than the payment level of the 661 afforestation program of government. With this model, the intermediate cost was about 15% but it ensured transparency in financial management.
