Financing environmental services: The Costa Rican experience and its implications

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 240, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 157-169

  Chomitz, Kenneth M ^a   Brenes, Esteban ^a   Constantino, Luis ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Deforestation; Environmental services; Forestry policy

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL PROVISION; SERVICE PROVISION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST; MARKET; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAX; THEORY;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0032837898     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00310-1     Document Type: Article

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