Science and forestry policy in Costa Rica and Honduras

Several obstacles to the use of these scientific outputs are enumerated in this paper. They are traced back to institutional structures and the political economy of natural resource exploitation. More appropriate policies of land use, reforestation incentives, social forestry, and sustainable yields could be achieved through institutional changes that would offer greater incentives for forestry officials and others in the forestry sector to accept the implications of sound economics and natural science. (Author abstract)