2014-07-292012-10-312011-11-04SILVA, Ricardo Dias da. Payment for environmental services in the context of agroecological transition: the case of farmers of Itapuranga-GO. 2011. 138 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Agrárias) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2011.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/416The increasing prominence of environmental issues on a global scale has triggered new approaches to the deal with agroecosystems and ways of reconciling production and preservation of tangible and intangible resources. In this sense, economic instruments for environmental management are employed and among them stands out the Payment for Environmental Services (PES). The purpose of this dissertation is to examine this instrumental as a tool with potential to succor family farmers in agroecological transition as in Itapuranga to conclude this process and consolidate a more sustainable production model, in order to be consistent with these recent preservationist s efforts. Through a combination of methods, this work makes use of literature search, interviews and observation to capture social and environmental dynamics of the researched universe as well as the aspects of the employed theory. Conclude that PES is properly an alternative in agroecological transition context as the increase of environmental quality given by agroecology is enough to motivate a payment that overcome the farmer s opportunity costs and, in consequence, helps in the perpetuation of this sustainable pattern that tends to be paid by the market prize. In the end, there are several synergistic aspects that enable this approach between different efforts and politics that lead syncretically towards human welfare and environmental sustainability.application/pdfAcesso AbertoPagamento por Serviços Ambientais, transição agroecológica, agricultura familiar.Payment for Environmental Servicesagroecological transitionfamily farmingCNPQ::OUTROS::ADMINISTRACAO RURALDissertação