Iskra Rojo

• College of Mexico

Sustainability requires a combination of meaningful co-production of locally relevant solutions, synthesis of insights gained across regions, and increased cooperation between science, policy and practice. The Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) has been coordinating Place-Based Social-Ecological Sustainability Research (PBSESR) acros...

This chapter examines, in an integrated way, the effects of the implementation of the federal Payment for Hydrological Environmental Services (PHES) Program in Mexico, managed by the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR) since 2003. The program involves economic compensations for carrying out conservation activities in areas of hydrological import...

Human well-being is a socio-cultural construct, originated within human experiences, that changes through time. The current literature shows a renewed interest to develop new measures and approaches to relate it to the progress of nations. One of the challenges is whether inequality is a key component and how to measure it. Furthermore, are indicat...

This article presents a systematic review of scientific publications on the ecosystem services topic with an integrated approach in Latin American countries for the period 1992-2017. Ecosystem services were subdivided into functional (provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural) and thematic (biodiversity, hydrological, carbon capture, landsc...

The present work analyzes the operation rules of eight environmental public policy programs applied in the conservation land of Mexico City in order to demonstrate the contradictions that they present, and thus to verify that there is institutional dysfunctionality, which can lead to potential environmental impact. The analytical framework is insti...

This research work presents an analysis of hydroclimatological information, in order to propose improvements for evaluation of the (environmental) effects of the Mexican program of Payment for Hydrological Environmental Services (PHES). Particularly, it is developed the case study of the San Miguel y Santo Tomás Ajusco community, located in the Con...

In this work is developed a proposal of environment indicators needed for the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) process in Mexico's Federal District (FD); through which are authorized the construction and realization of different work actions and activities. The methodology is based on the combination of cabinet and field work, performed in three...