Understanding the impacts of Costa Rica's PES: Are we asking the right questions?

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2116-2126

  Daniels, Amy E ^a   Bagstad, Kenneth ^b   Esposito, Valerie ^b   Moulaert, Azur ^b   Rodriguez, Carlos Manuel ^c  

^a Research and Development   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c Conservation International ^*  (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Deforestation; Ecosystem services; Forest; Forest recovery; Forest transition; Impact assessment; Payments for environmental services; REDD; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

DECISION ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; PRIVATE LAND; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 77956178301     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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