Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005

Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005

Costa Rica’s environmental services payments program (Pagos por Servicios Ambientales, or PSA) started in 1997 and was the true pioneer in this area. It is broadly cited and has led to numerous calls for emulating its approach in various ways. It has itself evolved over time, with acknowledged shift...

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Main Authors: Environment for Development, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC (EUA), Robalino, J, Pfaff, A, Sánchez, G, Alpízar, F, León, C, Rodríguez, C
Format: Artículo
Language:Inglés
Published: Environment for Development 2021
Subjects:
DEFORESTACION
IMPACTO AMBIENTAL
PROTECCION FORESTAL
POLITICA AMBIENTAL
POLITICA FORESTAL
COSTA RICA
DEFORESTATION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
FOREST PROTECTION
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
FORESTRY POLICIES
Online Access:https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10755
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spelling RepoCATIE107552021-12-22T19:15:23Z Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005 Environment for Development Resources for the Future, Washington, DC (EUA) Robalino, J Pfaff, A Sánchez, G Alpízar, F León, C Rodríguez, C DEFORESTACION IMPACTO AMBIENTAL PROTECCION FORESTAL POLITICA AMBIENTAL POLITICA FORESTAL COSTA RICA DEFORESTATION ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FOREST PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES FORESTRY POLICIES Costa Rica’s environmental services payments program (Pagos por Servicios Ambientales, or PSA) started in 1997 and was the true pioneer in this area. It is broadly cited and has led to numerous calls for emulating its approach in various ways. It has itself evolved over time, with acknowledged shifts in focus. To measure the impacts of changed implementation, following earlier work on the 1997–2000 payments (Sánchez-Azofeifa et al. 2007; Pfaff et al. 2007), we evaluated the impact of the PSA forest protection contracts during 2000 and 2005. We found that less than 1 in 100 (about 0.4 percent) of the parcels enrolled in the program would have been deforested annually without payments, i.e., due to the net impact of the land returns in agriculture versus in ecotourism, as well as the effects of other conservation policies. This low return on investment is, to first order, the same as was seen for 1997–2000. However, we found that shifts in implementation have eliminated the bias in PSA location toward places where PSA’s impact on deforestation was even lower than on average plots. Thus, we showed that the impact increased due to changes in how program parcels were chosen. However, significant potential gains can be realized by increased targeting of areas with some deforestation pressure, including with payments that differ over space. 2021-05-01T21:56:53Z 2021-05-01T21:56:53Z 2008 Artículo https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10755 en Discussion paper series (EfD); info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Environment for Development
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language Inglés
topic DEFORESTACION
IMPACTO AMBIENTAL
PROTECCION FORESTAL
POLITICA AMBIENTAL
POLITICA FORESTAL
COSTA RICA
DEFORESTATION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
FOREST PROTECTION
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
FORESTRY POLICIES
spellingShingle DEFORESTACION
IMPACTO AMBIENTAL
PROTECCION FORESTAL
POLITICA AMBIENTAL
POLITICA FORESTAL
COSTA RICA
DEFORESTATION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
FOREST PROTECTION
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
FORESTRY POLICIES
Environment for Development
Resources for the Future, Washington, DC (EUA)
Robalino, J
Pfaff, A
Sánchez, G
Alpízar, F
León, C
Rodríguez, C
Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005
description Costa Rica’s environmental services payments program (Pagos por Servicios Ambientales, or PSA) started in 1997 and was the true pioneer in this area. It is broadly cited and has led to numerous calls for emulating its approach in various ways. It has itself evolved over time, with acknowledged shifts in focus. To measure the impacts of changed implementation, following earlier work on the 1997–2000 payments (Sánchez-Azofeifa et al. 2007; Pfaff et al. 2007), we evaluated the impact of the PSA forest protection contracts during 2000 and 2005. We found that less than 1 in 100 (about 0.4 percent) of the parcels enrolled in the program would have been deforested annually without payments, i.e., due to the net impact of the land returns in agriculture versus in ecotourism, as well as the effects of other conservation policies. This low return on investment is, to first order, the same as was seen for 1997–2000. However, we found that shifts in implementation have eliminated the bias in PSA location toward places where PSA’s impact on deforestation was even lower than on average plots. Thus, we showed that the impact increased due to changes in how program parcels were chosen. However, significant potential gains can be realized by increased targeting of areas with some deforestation pressure, including with payments that differ over space.
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author Environment for Development
Resources for the Future, Washington, DC (EUA)
Robalino, J
Pfaff, A
Sánchez, G
Alpízar, F
León, C
Rodríguez, C
author_facet Environment for Development
Resources for the Future, Washington, DC (EUA)
Robalino, J
Pfaff, A
Sánchez, G
Alpízar, F
León, C
Rodríguez, C
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title Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005
title_short Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005
title_full Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005
title_fullStr Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005
title_full_unstemmed Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005
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