Marta Echavarria

Global literature review and survey of implementation constraints on natural climate solutions

Timm Kroeger, James Thomas Erbaugh, Zhixian Luo, Hilary Brumberg et autres

Natural Climate Solutions - protection, restoration, and improved management of lands and waters that reduce greenhouse gasses - have large climate change mitigation potential. However, lack of comprehensive information on implementation challenges hinders the adoption of Natural Climate Solutions and the delivery …

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The Machángara River Goes to Court

Marta Echavarria, Maribel Pasquel, Margaret Stern

Abstract The landmark Rights of Nature case for the Machángara River in Quito, Ecuador, is examined. Long degraded by untreated wastewater, industrial discharges, and urbanization, the Machángara River became the focus of a citizen-led lawsuit supported by scientists, academics, and indigenous representatives. …

Correction: Integrating nature-based solutions for urban water security in global south

Liya E. Abera, Suman Jumani, Charles B. van Rees, Jagdish Krishnaswamy et autres

Implementation constraints on natural climate solutions: A global literature review and survey

Timm Kroeger, James Thomas Erbaugh, Zhixian Luo, Hilary Brumberg et autres

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Investing in nature-based solutions: Cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs

Shiteng Kang, Timm Kroeger, Daniel Shemie, Marta Echavarria et autres

Worldwide, an increasing number of watershed management programs invest in nature-based solutions (NbS) to water security challenges. Yet, NbS for water security currently are deployed at well below their hypothesized cost-effective global potential, with uncertainty about costs identified as one key constraint …

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Upstream, Downstream

Marta Echavarria, Margaret B. Stern

Water and irrigation have been and continue to be fundamental to food production and thus instrumental in the history of human demographics. Institutional and regulatory frameworks for water in Latin America prioritize agricultural use, creating perverse incentives to maximize water use without …

Protecting source waters in Latin America

Marta Echavarria, Jan Cassin, José Bento da Rocha

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Nature-based solutions: Action for the 21st century

Jan Cassin, John H. Matthews, Elena Lopez-Gunn, Leah L. Bremer et autres

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Contributors

Robin Abell, Monica A. Altamirano, Nureen F. Anisha, Brooke Atwell et autres

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The evolution of water trust funds in Ecuador

Craig M. Kauffman, Marta Echavarria

In early 2000 the city of Quito, Ecuador, established the Water Protection Fund (FONAG) to provide sustainable financing for the management and conservation of surrounding watersheds.FONAG was innovative in that it pioneered the use of trust funds in a voluntary, decentralized mechanism …

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Financing Watershed Conservation: The FONAG Water Fund in Quito, Ecuador

Marta Echavarria

Do you know where your drinking water comes from? It is very likely that the water that comes out of your tap is brought through miles of pipeline from a protected area. This is particularly true in Latin America, where many national …

State of watershed payments: an emerging marketplace.

Thomas J. Stanton, Marta Echavarria, Katherine Hamilton, Claire Ott

Contiene: I. Introduction: why watershed payments. II. Methodology for collecting and standardizing data. III. Payments for watershed services programs. IV. Water quality trading programs. V. Conclusions and outlook.