What Are We Learning from Experiences with Markets for Environmental Services in Costa Rica?: A Review and Critique of the Literature

By M. Rojas, B. Aylward, Liz Alden Wily, N. Kanji, M. Pimbert, M. Rosales. 2003

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Effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) on Deforestation and Poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review (2014, background): “(Rojas and Aylward 2003: 94) The question of the feasibility of a more efficient PES programs remains a question that is open and needs further research.”
Impacts of payments for environmental services on local development in northern Costa Rica : A fuzzy multi-criteria analysis (2008, background): “In total, landowners support a transaction cost of 18% of the payment according to Rojas and Aylward (2003) or between 22% and 25% including other taxes, according to Baltodano (2000).”
Rights to Land, Forests and Carbon in REDD+: Insights from Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica (2011, result): “In this regard, the government claims to have mostly benefited small and medium landowners in impoverished rural areas [83] even if this contradicts evidence from academic studies that have shown a bias towards supporting large forest owners [101,102].”
Neoliberalism and the Environment in Latin America (2006, background): “Rojas & Aylward (98) summarize a number of criticisms of the Costa Rican approach to forest management through payment for environmental services, including the problems of monitoring and placing values on services, the challenges of protection in areas with no one willing to pay for services such a”