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Payments for Environmental Services in Costa Rica

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dc.contributor.authorPagiola, Stefanoen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialCosta Ricaen
dc.coverage.spatialCentral Americaen
dc.coverage.temporal1997en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:20:14Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:20:14Zen
dc.date.issued2006en
dc.description.abstractCosta Rica pioneered the use of the payments for environmental services (PES) approach in developing countries by establishing a formal, country-wide program of payments, the PSA program. The PSA program has worked hard to develop mechanisms to charge the users of environmental services for the services they receive. It has made substantial progress in charging water users, and more limited progress in charging biodiversity and carbon sequestration users. Because of the way it makes payments to service providers (using approaches largely inherited from earlier programs), however, the PSA program has considerable room for improvement in the efficiency with which it generates environmental services. With experience, many of these weaknesses are being gradually corrected as the PSA program evolves towards a much more targeted and differentiated program. An important lesson is the need to be flexible and to adapt to lessons learned and to changing circumstances.en
dc.description.notesPES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier2704en
dc.identifier.citationMPRA Paper No. 2010en
dc.identifier.other2704_Pagiola2006_PES_in_Costa_Rica.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67094en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.urihttp://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2010/en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectBiodiversityen
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectForest managementen
dc.subjectGovernment policyen
dc.subjectForest ecosystemsen
dc.subjectEnvironmental servicesen
dc.subjectSustainable forestryen
dc.subjectReforestationen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectNational planningen
dc.subjectForestsen
dc.subjectPESen
dc.subjectFonafifoen
dc.subjectPsaen
dc.subjectForest plantationsen
dc.subjectForest conservationen
dc.subjectPagos por Servicios Ambientales (PSA)en
dc.subjectTargetingen
dc.subjectHydrological servicesen
dc.subjectWater tariffsen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Governance Watersheden
dc.titlePayments for Environmental Services in Costa Ricaen
dc.typePresentationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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