The social impacts of the Payments for Environmental Services (PES) Scheme in Costa Rica: A quantitative field survey and analysis of the Virilla watershed

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Author(s):
M. Miranda; I.T. Porras; M.L. Moreno

Type of Document:
Research Report

 

Publisher/Journal:
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Date of Publication:
2003

Place of Publication:
London, UK

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Abstract: In 1996 Costa Rica implemented an innovative programme of Payments for Environmental Services (PES). Through this programme, forest and plantation owners are financially rewarded and legally acknowledged for the environmental services their forests provide to the community, both nationally and globally. By means of a case study of the Virilla watershed in Costa Rica, this report uses the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework to analyse the social effects of the PES programme, and examines the effects the programme has had on financial, human, social, physical and environmental capital.

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