Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Ecosystems services have become a key concept in understanding the way humans benefit from ecosystems. In Costa Rica, a pioneer national scheme of payment provides compensation for forest conservation that is assumed to jointly produce services related to biodiversity conservation, carbon stor...

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Main Authors:	Locatelli, Bruno, Imbach, Pablo A., Wunder, Sven
Format:	Artículo
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2015
Online Access:	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/7685

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spelling	RepoCATIE76852021-12-22T19:22:55Z Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica Locatelli, Bruno Imbach, Pablo A. Wunder, Sven Ecosystems services have become a key concept in understanding the way humans benefit from ecosystems. In Costa Rica, a pioneer national scheme of payment provides compensation for forest conservation that is assumed to jointly produce services related to biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, water and scenic beauty, but little is known about the spatial correlations among these services. A spatial assessment, at national scale and with fine resolution, identified the spatial congruence between these services, by considering the biophysical potential of service provision and socioeconomic demand. Services have different spatial distributions but are positively correlated. Spatial synergies exist between current policies (national parks and the payment scheme) and the conservation of ecosystem services: national parks and areas receiving payments provide more services than other areas. Biodiversity hotspots have the highest co-benefits for other services, while carbon hotspots have the lowest. This finding calls for cautiousness in relation to expectations that forestbased mitigation initiatives such as REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) can automatically maximize bundled co-benefits for biodiversity and local ecosystem services. 2015-11-12T19:22:23Z 2015-11-12T19:22:23Z 2013 Artículo https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/7685 en Programa de Cambio Climático y Cuencas (PCCC) application/pdf
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description	Ecosystems services have become a key concept in understanding the way humans benefit from ecosystems. In Costa Rica, a pioneer national scheme of payment provides compensation for forest conservation that is assumed to jointly produce services related to biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, water and scenic beauty, but little is known about the spatial correlations among these services. A spatial assessment, at national scale and with fine resolution, identified the spatial congruence between these services, by considering the biophysical potential of service provision and socioeconomic demand. Services have different spatial distributions but are positively correlated. Spatial synergies exist between current policies (national parks and the payment scheme) and the conservation of ecosystem services: national parks and areas receiving payments provide more services than other areas. Biodiversity hotspots have the highest co-benefits for other services, while carbon hotspots have the lowest. This finding calls for cautiousness in relation to expectations that forestbased mitigation initiatives such as REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) can automatically maximize bundled co-benefits for biodiversity and local ecosystem services.
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title	Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica
title_short	Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica
title_full	Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica
title_fullStr	Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica
title_full_unstemmed	Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica
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Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

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