Hacia la sostenibilidad financiera del sistema nacional de las áreas protegidas de República Dominicana

This book, of a strictly technical nature, is a report that summarizes the results of a study that allows knowing, through estimates, the economic value of the protected areas of the Dominican Republic and presents a financial strategy, with the clear purpose of building or at least outline a conceptual and methodological framework for the financial sustainability of protected areas in the Dominican Republic.

Written by Dr. Víctor Gómez Valenzuela. Principal investigator. Dominican citizen, graduated in anthropology from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. He has a Master's Degree in Environmental Economics from the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) and training in economic analysis and valuation of natural resources by the Conservation Strategy Fund and Stranfourd University, USA.

Dr. Francisco Alpízar, co-investigator. Costa Rican, one of the most prominent environmental economists in the region. He is an economist from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In addition, Associate Director and founder of the Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP) based at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE).

Dr. Solhanlle Bonilla Duarte. Of Dominican nationality. His formal studies include a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, a Master's degree in Environmental Economics with an emphasis on Environmental Administration and Management from CATIE in Costa Rica, and doctoral studies in Sustainable Territorial Development from the University of Extremadura, Spain.