Impact of Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services on Land Use
Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales, PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports evidence on how much more forest has b...
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okr-10986-178932021-04-23T14:03:40Z Impact of Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services on Land Use Sills, Erin Arriagada, Rodrigo Ferraro, Paul Pattanayak, Subhrendu Carrasco, Luis Ortiz, Edgar Cordero, Silvia Caldwell, Katie Andam, Kwaw AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AGGREGATE LEVEL AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL LAND USE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGRICULTURE AGROFORESTRY AREA OF FOREST AREAS OF FOREST ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION BASELINE FOREST BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BUFFER ZONES BURNING CATTLE CENSUS DATA CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLOUD COVER CO COLLECTIVE ACTION COLORS COMMUNITY FORESTRY COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONSERVATION AREAS CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT CONSERVATION BIOLOGY CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS CONSERVATION POLICIES CONSERVATION POLICY CONSERVATION PROGRAMS CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY CORDILLERA CULTIVATION DEFORESTATION DEFORESTATION RATE DEFORESTATION RATES DETERMINANT DETERMINANTS ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FACTORS ECONOMICS ECONOMISTS ECOSYSTEM ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ECOSYSTEMS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ENCROACHMENT ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES ENVIRONMENTAL PREFERENCES ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ENVIRONMENTALISM EXPENDITURES FARMS FENCED FIELD SURVEY FISHERIES FOREST FOREST AREA FOREST AREAS FOREST CONSERVATION FOREST COVER FOREST DISTURBANCE FOREST ECOSYSTEMS FOREST FRAGMENTATION FOREST LOSS FOREST MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS FOREST PLANTATION FOREST PLANTATIONS FOREST PROTECTION FOREST QUALITY FOREST STEWARDSHIP FOREST STRATEGY FOREST USE FORESTRY GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY GOLD HABITAT PROTECTION HUNTERS IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES LABOR FORCE LAND COVER LAND ECONOMICS LAND TENURE LAND USE LAND USE DECISIONS LANDOWNER LANDSCAPE LIVESTOCK MARGINAL BENEFITS MARKET INSTRUMENTS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE IMPACTS OPTION VALUE PASTURE PLANTATION FORESTRY POPULATION DENSITIES POPULATION DENSITY PRIMARY FOREST PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC GOODS QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUOTAS REFORESTATION ROAD NETWORK ROADS SILVER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE FOREST SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT TIMBER TOURISM TROPICAL FORESTS WATERSHED WOOD WOOD PRODUCTION Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales, PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how much forest would have been preserved if there had been no payments. By applying rigorous program evaluation methods that have been recommended for identifying the causal effects of conservation policies, we find that the PSA program does result in a small but statistically significant increase in the area of forest conserved. 2014-04-17T16:19:35Z 2014-04-17T16:19:35Z 2008-10 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/19304445/impact-costa-ricas-program-payments-environmental-services-land-use http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17893 English en_US Payments for Environmental Services (PES) learning paper;no. 2008-3 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Costa Rica |
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AGGREGATE LEVEL AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL LAND USE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGRICULTURE AGROFORESTRY AREA OF FOREST AREAS OF FOREST ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION BASELINE FOREST BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BUFFER ZONES BURNING CATTLE CENSUS DATA CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLOUD COVER CO COLLECTIVE ACTION COLORS COMMUNITY FORESTRY COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONSERVATION AREAS CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT CONSERVATION BIOLOGY CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS CONSERVATION POLICIES CONSERVATION POLICY CONSERVATION PROGRAMS CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY CORDILLERA CULTIVATION DEFORESTATION DEFORESTATION RATE DEFORESTATION RATES DETERMINANT DETERMINANTS ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FACTORS ECONOMICS ECONOMISTS ECOSYSTEM ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ECOSYSTEMS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ENCROACHMENT ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES ENVIRONMENTAL PREFERENCES ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ENVIRONMENTALISM EXPENDITURES FARMS FENCED FIELD SURVEY FISHERIES FOREST FOREST AREA FOREST AREAS FOREST CONSERVATION FOREST COVER FOREST DISTURBANCE FOREST ECOSYSTEMS FOREST FRAGMENTATION FOREST LOSS FOREST MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS FOREST PLANTATION FOREST PLANTATIONS FOREST PROTECTION FOREST QUALITY FOREST STEWARDSHIP FOREST STRATEGY FOREST USE FORESTRY GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY GOLD HABITAT PROTECTION HUNTERS IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES LABOR FORCE LAND COVER LAND ECONOMICS LAND TENURE LAND USE LAND USE DECISIONS LANDOWNER LANDSCAPE LIVESTOCK MARGINAL BENEFITS MARKET INSTRUMENTS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE IMPACTS OPTION VALUE PASTURE PLANTATION FORESTRY POPULATION DENSITIES POPULATION DENSITY PRIMARY FOREST PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC GOODS QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUOTAS REFORESTATION ROAD NETWORK ROADS SILVER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE FOREST SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT TIMBER TOURISM TROPICAL FORESTS WATERSHED WOOD WOOD PRODUCTION |
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AGGREGATE LEVEL AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL LAND USE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGRICULTURE AGROFORESTRY AREA OF FOREST AREAS OF FOREST ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION BASELINE FOREST BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BUFFER ZONES BURNING CATTLE CENSUS DATA CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLOUD COVER CO COLLECTIVE ACTION COLORS COMMUNITY FORESTRY COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONSERVATION AREAS CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT CONSERVATION BIOLOGY CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS CONSERVATION POLICIES CONSERVATION POLICY CONSERVATION PROGRAMS CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY CORDILLERA CULTIVATION DEFORESTATION DEFORESTATION RATE DEFORESTATION RATES DETERMINANT DETERMINANTS ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FACTORS ECONOMICS ECONOMISTS ECOSYSTEM ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ECOSYSTEMS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ENCROACHMENT ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES ENVIRONMENTAL PREFERENCES ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ENVIRONMENTALISM EXPENDITURES FARMS FENCED FIELD SURVEY FISHERIES FOREST FOREST AREA FOREST AREAS FOREST CONSERVATION FOREST COVER FOREST DISTURBANCE FOREST ECOSYSTEMS FOREST FRAGMENTATION FOREST LOSS FOREST MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS FOREST PLANTATION FOREST PLANTATIONS FOREST PROTECTION FOREST QUALITY FOREST STEWARDSHIP FOREST STRATEGY FOREST USE FORESTRY GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY GOLD HABITAT PROTECTION HUNTERS IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES LABOR FORCE LAND COVER LAND ECONOMICS LAND TENURE LAND USE LAND USE DECISIONS LANDOWNER LANDSCAPE LIVESTOCK MARGINAL BENEFITS MARKET INSTRUMENTS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE IMPACTS OPTION VALUE PASTURE PLANTATION FORESTRY POPULATION DENSITIES POPULATION DENSITY PRIMARY FOREST PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC GOODS QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUOTAS REFORESTATION ROAD NETWORK ROADS SILVER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE FOREST SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT TIMBER TOURISM TROPICAL FORESTS WATERSHED WOOD WOOD PRODUCTION Sills, Erin Arriagada, Rodrigo Ferraro, Paul Pattanayak, Subhrendu Carrasco, Luis Ortiz, Edgar Cordero, Silvia Caldwell, Katie Andam, Kwaw Impact of Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services on Land Use |
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Latin America & Caribbean Costa Rica |
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Payments for Environmental Services (PES)
learning paper;no. 2008-3 |
| description |
Costa Rica's Program of Payments
for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales,
PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct
payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports
evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa
Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such
evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how
much forest would have been preserved if there had been no
payments. By applying rigorous program evaluation methods
that have been recommended for identifying the causal
effects of conservation policies, we find that the PSA
program does result in a small but statistically significant
increase in the area of forest conserved. |
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Publications & Research :: Working Paper |
| author |
Sills, Erin Arriagada, Rodrigo Ferraro, Paul Pattanayak, Subhrendu Carrasco, Luis Ortiz, Edgar Cordero, Silvia Caldwell, Katie Andam, Kwaw |
| author_facet |
Sills, Erin Arriagada, Rodrigo Ferraro, Paul Pattanayak, Subhrendu Carrasco, Luis Ortiz, Edgar Cordero, Silvia Caldwell, Katie Andam, Kwaw |
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Sills, Erin |
| title |
Impact of Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services on Land Use |
| title_short |
Impact of Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services on Land Use |
| title_full |
Impact of Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services on Land Use |
| title_fullStr |
Impact of Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services on Land Use |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Impact of Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services on Land Use |
| title_sort |
impact of costa rica's program of payments for environmental services on land use |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
| publishDate |
2014 |
| url |
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/19304445/impact-costa-ricas-program-payments-environmental-services-land-use http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17893 |
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