Tackling environmental degradation in Costa Rican rural areas through market-based instruments

Abstract

In this article, it is argued that despite Costa Rican efforts to reverse deforestation and increase conservation, environmental degradation in rural areas has continued to expand as a result of the demands and agendas of the land use groups (traditional and emerging actors) pressing for their interests, as well as state reform and political changes that have occurred in the last decades. All these elements have come together to generate a public sector that attempts to resolve all these demands by simply avoiding action and concrete policies in order to stop environmental degradation in rural areas.