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Payments for Ecosystem Services: Development of pilots to lever

Payments for Ecosystem Services: Development of pilots to lever new income streams from water companies Chris Manning – Water Policy Officer. Introduction. PES – aspiration in South Downs Partnership Management Plan.

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Payments for Ecosystem Services: Development of pilots to lever

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  1. Payments for Ecosystem Services: Development of pilots to lever new income streams from water companies Chris Manning – Water Policy Officer

  2. Introduction PES – aspiration in South Downs Partnership Management Plan. Policy 2 – develop landscape-scale partnerships and initiatives to focus on enhancing the key ecosystem services delivered by the National Park.

  3. What are payments forecosystem services? Ecosystem services - the diverse benefits that we derive from the natural environment. Examples include the supply of food, water and timber (provisioning services). PES - schemes in which the beneficiaries, or users, of ecosystem services provide payment to the stewards, or providers, of ecosystem services.

  4. What are payments forecosystem services?

  5. Towards to developmentof PES…

  6. Towards the developmentof PES… Currently at 1a! – baseline evidence. Water companies (potential beneficiary) have a clear dependency on the provision of an ecosystem service (water quality regulation) for groundwater & surface water. NIA groundwater modelling project & SMART – Sediment & Mitigation Actions for the River Rother.

  7. Towards the developmentof PES… Identifying where catchment management/PES could be a more sustainable/economic way of securing water quality than more expensive engineering solutions – working with water companies and Environment Agency. Now need to move to 1b – investigate to build relations/trust with land managers to identify prospective sellers – working with ARRT & Southern Water developing a potential pilot…

  8. Happy to discuss further! chris.manning@southdowns.gov.uk

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