Consequences of Environmental Service Payments for Forest Retention and Recruitment in a Costa Rican Biological Corridor

Consequences of Environmental Service Payments for Forest Retention and Recruitment in a Costa Rican Biological Corridor

Compensation to landowners for forest-derived environmental services has gained international recognition as a mechanism to combat forest loss and fragmentation. This approach is widely promoted, although there is little evidence demonstrating that environmental service payments encourage forest ste...

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Main Authors: Wayde C. Morse, Jessica L. Schedlbauer, Steven E. Sesnie, Bryan Finegan, Celia A. Harvey, Steven J. Hollenhorst, Kathleen L. Kavanagh, Dietmar Stoian, J. D. Wulfhorst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2009-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
biological corridor
carbon storage
Costa Rica
environmental service payments
forest change
landowner decision making
Sarapiquí
secondary forest
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art23/

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