Conservation payments under risk: A stochastic dominance approach

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-15

  Benítez, Pablo C ^a   Kuosmanen, Timo ^b   Olschewski, Roland ^c   van Kooten, G Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agroforest systems; Conservation payments; Land allocation; Portfolio diversification; Risk; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33644777731     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00835.x     Document Type: Article

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