Deforestation and forest restoration in Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Putting conservation policies in context

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 931-940

  Calvo Alvarado, J ^a   McLennan, B ^b   Sanchez Azofeifa A ^b   Garvin, T ^b  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Deforestation; Forest conservation; Forest restoration; Guanacaste; Land use land cover change; Payments of Environmental Services; Sustainable development; Tropical dry forest

Indexed keywords

COSTA RICA; FOREST CONSERVATION; FOREST RESTORATION; GUANACASTE; LAND-USE/LAND-COVER CHANGE; PAYMENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; TROPICAL DRY FOREST;

DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; IMAGE RECORDING; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RESTORATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICS;

CONSERVATION;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEFORESTATION; DRY FOREST; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; POLITICAL CHANGE; REGROWTH; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

COSTA RICA; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; GUANACASTE;

EID: 68849093101     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.10.035     Document Type: Article

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