Assessing Payment for Ecosystem Services in Resunga Forest Hill, Gulmi Nepal

Volume 4 - Issue 3

Indra Bahadur Prachhain¹, Bimala Khanal² and Ram Asheshwar Mandal³*

Received: November 22, 2019;   Published: December 16, 2019

DOI: 10.32474/OAJESS.2019.04.000186

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Abstract

Payment for Ecosystem Services is always appreciated because of its offer for services receiving from ecosystem. Thus, this research was objectively carried out list of ecosystem services offered by Resunga forest hill and to show their economic analysis. Two Focus group discussion was carried out with the involvement of local people, social worker, and community schoolteacher and from related stakeholder. One focus group discussion with 10 numbers of participants was carried out at Resunga municipality. Total 15 key interviews were conducted to collect the information regarding ecosystem services using structured and semi structured questionnaire, through either formally or informally interview. Field visit was done at morning to ecosystem system services exist in the forests. Secondary data were mainly collected from published and unpublished relevant documents. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and economic analysis. The list of ecosystem services are water, fodder, forage, pebbles/ boulders, timber and fuel wood. These services were categorized into four main categories into regular, provisional, cultural and supportive. The water was considered as the most significant services in the study area. It was found that total benefit of US$18332.54 and total cost was around US$11132.425. So, the mean benefit and cost is US$3666.508 and US$2226.48 respectively. The benefit cost (B/C) ratio was found to be 1.66 which shows that there is high potentiality of PES schemes in Resunga furthermore NPV value seems to be 1.33 which means PES schemes will have high sustainability in Next five year in Resunga forest.

Keywords: Payment for ecosystem services, Resunga Forest Area, Livelihood, Fund mobilization

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