Costa Rica’s Payment for Environmental Services Program: Intention, Implementation, and Impact

Authors:
Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A., A. Pfaff, J.A. Robalino and J.P. Boomhower

Publication Date:
2007

Abstract/Summary:
those prior to the PSA program, may explain the current reduction in deforestation rates. The PSA program is a major advance in the global institutionalization of ecosystem investments because few, if any, other countries have such a conservation history and because much can be learned from Costa Rica’s experiences.

Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article

Source:
Conservation Biology

Link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00751.x/abstract