Forest conservation and restoration using eco-loan financing (ELF) in Costa Rica: Report on a working model

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 402-407

  Lennette, Evelyne T ^a   Villa, Luis V ^a   Chaves, Randall Varela ^a   Villalobos, Manrique Esquivel ^a   Viquez, Alvaro Ugalde ^a  

^a Nectandra Institute   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

ASADAS; Community water associations; Eco financing; Tropical cloud forest regeneration; Watershed restoration

Indexed keywords

NECTANDRA;

EID: 80053510623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00193.x     Document Type: Article

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