Payment for ecosystem services for an urban water supply watershed: a business case of Rejoso Kita, Indonesia

Abstract

Agriculturally dominated land cover in upper and midstream of urban source watershed becomes key determinants for safeguarding good provisions of ecosystem services and water-related disasters. Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is an incentive-based scheme as a part of environmental governance tools that enables halting the watershed degradation by creating interrelationships between land managers of source watersheds and the urban users who depend on them. The Rejoso Kita initiative is piloting the PES schemes targeting productive landscapes and smallholders in rural developing country context