Upscaling payments for environmental services (PES): Critical issues

Tropical Conservation Science

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 249-261

  Pirard, Romain ^a   Billé, Raphaë ^a   Sembrés, Thomas ^b  

^a SCIENCES PO   (France)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation principle; Conditionality; Land use change; Large scale implementation; Polluter pays principle; Sustainability; Tropical deforestation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951692055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19400829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/194008291000300302     Document Type: Article

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