Policy innovations for private forest management and conservation in Costa Rica

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 18-23

  Snider, Anthony G ^a   Pattanayak, Subhrendu K ^b   Sills, Erin O ^c   Schuler, Jamie L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Deforestation; Environmental services; International forestry

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; NATURAL RESOURCES; PUBLIC POLICY;

ENVIRONMENT SERVICES;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0041566828     PISSN: 00221201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jof/101.5.18     Document Type: Article

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