World Water Week 2006

"Mas allá del río - compartiendo beneficios y responsabilidades" es el tema de la Semana Mundial del Agua 2006 en Estocolmo, quue tuvo lugar del 20 al 26 de Agosto del 2006. El Sistema Andino de Cuencas del CPWF (http://www.infoandina.org/proyectos-listado.shtml?x=3994) estuvo representado a través de su coordinador, Dr. Héctor Cisneros quien participó en el taller 7: Compartiendo los Beneficios de los servicios ecosistémicos y los costos de la degradación ecosistémica.

Sharing the Benefits of Ecosystem
Services and the Costs
of Ecosystem Degradation

Wednesday 23 August, 09:00-17:00
Folkets Hus, Room 307

Convenor: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
Co-convenors: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) and Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Workshop Discussion Entry Points
Benefits that people receive from ecosystems, terrestrial ones as well as aquatic ones, take many forms and could be identified with reference to different temporal and spatial scales. It is also increasingly evident that the poorest segments of society often bear the highest costs of ecosys-tem degradation. Improved understanding and valuation of ecosystem services is a necessary first step in developing and strengthening ways and means for negotiating and sharing benefits of ecosystem services. Improved knowledge of the value of such services also helps to allocate responsibility for an effective maintenance of functions and resilience of ecosystems.

What benefits at what position in a catchment?
Ecosystems form dynamic fluxes, often related to differ-ent sites, which should also be seen in a wider context. What benefits and services can be generated from different types and scales of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, respectively, at different positions in a catchment?

Tools for identification and valuation
What tools and mechanisms are available and necessary for identifying and valuing such benefits and services?

Principles for sharing of benefits and costs
Since many ecosystem services are generated without direct human intervention, principles for the negotiation and sharing of benefits from ecosystems, and for ecosystem degradation cost allocation, need to be developed. What principles must be adhered to in this connection? What conclusions can be drawn regarding the responsibilities of various actors for maintaining vital functions of ecosystems?

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