Giving credit where credit is due: Increasing landowner compensation for ecosystem services

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Volumn , Issue 842, 2011, Pages 1-32

  la Rocco, Gina L ^a   Deal, Robert L ^b  

^a Forestry Sciences Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bundling ecosystem services; Ecosystem services; Landowner compensation; Landowner incentives; Markets for ecosystem services; Stacking ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPENSATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FILTER; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDOWNER; LANDSCAPE; POLICY MAKING; SOIL CARBON; STATE ROLE; SUSTAINABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 79961195636     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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