Program of Payments for Ecological Services in Costa Rica
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2002
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The paper explores one example of a system for valuation of forest goods and services, assessing its advantages/disadvantages, lessons learnt and its application to large scale integrated projects and the implications for FLR.
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National parks, Ecological restoration, Payments for environmental services, Forest management, Bioreserves, Sustainable forestry, Reforestation, Conservation, Forests, PES, Forest ecological services, For environmental services program (pesp), Fondo nacional de financiamiento forestal (fonafifo), Sistema nacional de areas de conservacion (sinac), Market-based incentives, Forest landscape restoration, Forest conservation, Biological corridors, Contracts, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale
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Presented at Building Assets for People and Nature: International Expert Meeting on Forest Landscape Restoration, Heredia, Costa Rica, 27 February - 2 March 2002