María Perevochtchikova

• PhD in Geography
• College of Mexico

Peri-urban areas provide multiple ecosystem services, but face critical challenges, including deforestation, unplanned urban sprawl, and environmental pollution and degradation. To address these issues, environmental public policy instruments have been implemented. This paper aims to investigate the social ecological trajectories of a peri-urban ar...

En el contexto de la expansión urbana, se resalta la importancia de la preservación de servicios ecosistémicos que proveen territorios periurbanos. En relación, se han desarrollado y aplicado diversos incentivos directos para la conservación (IDC); sin embargo, con frecuencia se da el caso de sobreposición de los instrumentos y de desconocimiento d...

Water is one of the most demanded resources in rural areas of developing countries. Its management and governance need knowledge transfers and interactions among several actors at different administrative levels, starting with local social actors’ participation. In this article, we analyze the water governance in Chile using (i) a governance instru...

Resumen Uno de los obstáculos en la implementación de una gestión integrada del agua urbana (GIAU) es la ausencia o la no implementación de herramientas que ayuden a establecer metas, y evaluar procesos y avances. El uso de indicadores con el objetivo de analizar los cambios ocurridos se encuentra ampliamente aceptado; sin embargo, hasta ahora, est...

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...

In this work, we present the experience of implementing of Community Participatory Monitoring scheme (CPM) of water quality in a forest community, located on the periphery of Mexico City. This scheme has driven under the assumption that by using the simple techniques of observation of water resources its can encourage community participation in the...

In the present study is analyzed the process of implementation of the Payment for Hydrological Environmental Services (PHES) program in Mexico during the 2003-2009 period, which arises like a national public policy instrument directed to the creation of new schemes of economic compensation to land owners that count with forest cover, for the conser...