Program of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica
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2011-10
Authors
Hernández, Natalia Arce, author
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Programs using payments for environmental services to help conserve natural resources have become more and more popular around the world during the last two decades. Costa Rica has been a leader in this field and now has a very successful program which recognizes the value of environmental services and financially rewards the people who provide them. This presentation will explain how this program works and how it has evolved through the years since it was first implemented in 1997.
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Presented at the Fall 2011 Center for Collaborative Conservation (https://collaborativeconservation.org/) Seminar and Discussion Series, "Collaborative Conservation in Practice: Indigenous Peoples and Conservation", October 11, 2011, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. This series focused on Indigenous Peoples and Conservation.
Natalia Arce is a forestry engineer, and graduated in 2006 from the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. She currently works at FONAFIFO (National Forestry Financing Fund) in the department of management of environmental services, and she is responsible for monitoring of the payments for environmental services throughout the country. Previous to working at FONAFIFO, she worked as a GIS consultant. Her graduate project was researching carbon capture in agroforestry systems with cacao trees in indigenous territories Talamanca, Costa Rica.
Natalia Arce is a forestry engineer, and graduated in 2006 from the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. She currently works at FONAFIFO (National Forestry Financing Fund) in the department of management of environmental services, and she is responsible for monitoring of the payments for environmental services throughout the country. Previous to working at FONAFIFO, she worked as a GIS consultant. Her graduate project was researching carbon capture in agroforestry systems with cacao trees in indigenous territories Talamanca, Costa Rica.
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environmental services payments program
PES program
sustainable development
funding
reforestation
natural regeneration
agroforestry systems
forest protection
forest management
water resource protection