Environmental service payments: Evaluating biodiversity conservation trade-offs and cost-efficiency in the Osa Conservation Area, Costa Rica.

The cost-efficiency of payments for environmental services (PES) to private landowners in the Osa Conservation Area, Costa Rica, is evaluated in terms of the trade-off between biodiversity representation and opportunity costs of conservation to agricultural and forestry land-use. Using available GIS...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 90; no. 2; pp. 901 - 912
Autores principales:	Barton, D. N., Faith, D. P., Rusch, G. M.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Academic Press Inc. February 2009
Materias:	Environmental economics Biodiversity Conservation biology Costa Rica
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