Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?
| Main author: | Wallbott, Linda |
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| Other authors: | Siciliano, GiuseppinaLederer, Markus |
| Format: | Journal Article |
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eprints-31697 |
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SOAS, University of London |
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SOAS Research Online |
| language |
English |
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English |
| description |
Costa Rica has a strong international reputation for conservation and sustainable management of forests, including through its national payments for environmental services (PES) system and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). However, to be able to take those achievements to the next level, new approaches need to be developed that integrate agriculture and environmental politics, e.g., to foster climate-smart landscape management. This would be in line with the idea of a green transformation as a necessary contribution to bring human social-ecological action back within planetary boundaries. We start from a general conceptualization of a green transformation and its potential drivers, then analyze the basis and prospects for such developments by providing a review of the country’s forest politics, including a mapping of relevant stakeholders that have been influential in designing and implementing the national PES and REDD+ approaches. Based on original empirical analysis that was conducted throughout 2017, we further analyze recent institutional developments of setting up a cross-sectoral policy for agriculture and environment as part of a broader landscape management approach, including the opportunities and challenges that might arise with a view to realizing this idea on the ground. |
| format |
Journal Article |
| author |
Wallbott, Linda |
| author_facet |
Wallbott, Linda Siciliano, Giuseppina Lederer, Markus |
| authorStr |
Wallbott, Linda |
| author_letter |
Wallbott, Linda |
| author2 |
Siciliano, Giuseppina Lederer, Markus |
| author2Str |
Siciliano, Giuseppina Lederer, Markus |
| title |
Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management? |
| publisher |
Resilience Alliance |
| publishDate |
2019 |
| url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31697/
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