Juan Robalino

TL;DR: The results show that, with appropriate empirical methods, conservation scientists and policy makers can better understand the relationships between human and natural systems and can use this to guide their attempts to protect critical ecosystem services.

TL;DR: Costa Rica's PSA program is a major advance in the global institutionalization of ecosystem investments because few, if any, other countries have such a conservation history and because much can be learned from Costa Rica's experiences.

TL;DR: This article found evidence of spatial spillovers from roads in the Brazilian Amazon: deforestation rises in the census tracts that lack roads but are in the same county as and within 100 km of a tract with a new paved or unpaved road.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the impacts of different levels of environmental protection in the Brazilian Amazon and find that sustainable use protection, whose governance permits some local deforestation, is found on sites with high clearing threat, and integral protection, which bans clearing but seems feasible only further from deforestation threats.

TL;DR: Pfaff et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the relationship between park location and forest protection in Costa Rica and found that land characteristics cause differences in park impacts across Costa Rica, and that park location affects forest protection.