Few nations have transformed their path of development in just a few decades, but Costa Rica has.
Question:
Few nations have transformed their path of development in just a few decades, but Costa Rica has. In the 1980s, the small Central American country was losing its forests as fast as any place on Earth. Yet this nation of 4.7 million people has regained much of its forest cover, boasts a world-class park system, and stands as a global model for sustainable resource management. Costa Rica took many steps on this impressive road to success. One key step was to begin paying landowners to conserve forest on private land in a program called "Payment for Environment Services."
Is Costa Rica the only nation to have such a program? Obviously not, but what other countries, including the United States, have a program for paying for environmental or ecosystem services? Our discussion this week is to find an article about paying for environmental/ecosystem services.
Contemporary business 2012 update
ISBN: 978-1118010303
14th edition
Authors: Louis E. Boone, ? David L. Kurtz