Understanding linkages between ecosystem service payments, forest plantations, and export agriculture

Geoforum

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-112

  Lansing, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Forestry; Neoliberalism; PES; Plantation agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXPORT; NEOLIBERALISM; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REFORESTATION; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

COSTA RICA;

GMELINA ARBOREA;

EID: 84877062774     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.03.009     Document Type: Article

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