Present and future legal framework of environmental services in Argentina

MINAVERRY, CLARA MARÍA

Utah

Congreso; 24th IUFRO World Congress 2014; 2014

International Union of Forest Research Organizations

Environmental services are not regulated for all natural resources in argentine legislation. This follows the pattern of legal development protection, which doesn´t apply a systemic connection of integral environment conservation. One of the exceptional cases is national law for the environmental protection for native forests), which stated that environmental services are tangible and intangible benefits provided by ecosystems from native forests, which are necessary for the living of a natural and biological system as a whole, and in order to improve people´s life quality. Environmental Law should create a technical mechanism which internalizes the payment of environmental services provided by all natural resources. For the implementation of this system, environmental services will have to be evaluated economically, bearing in mind that this monetary quantification is very difficult to calculate the same as it happens with environmental damages.