PES – Paradox or practical mix? Costa Rica’s PES programme is curiously successful at providing something that appeals to almost anyone’s views of forest conservation, irrespective of ideological or economic approach. The same 1996 Forest Law that establishes PES also bans land use change in forests. With the ban in mind, the Forest Laws have been seen by some as a paradox.[sciencedirect/science/article/pii/S0016718511002107] To some, they are just another name for the forest owner subsidy scheme Costa Rica abandoned in the mid-1990s as part of the IMF Structural Adjustment Program (see the IIED reports here and here). Others have argued [sciencedirect/science/article/pii/S0016718512001868] that features of PES represent the onset of a neoliberal forest policy, despite the ban on changing land use. PES has also been called a national quid pro quo by some – a necessary concession to forest stakeholders to get them to accept a ban on forest land-use change in the Forest Law (examples here and here).
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