Designing payments for ecosystem services: Lessons from previous experience with incentive-based mechanisms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 9465-9470

  Jacka, B Kelsey ^a   Kouskya, Carolyn ^a   Simsa, Katharine R E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental policy; Incentive payments; Market based instruments

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POLITICS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MOTIVATION; POLITICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 47749152624     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705503104     Document Type: Review

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