Optimal contract lengths for voluntary ecosystem service provision with varied dynamic benefit functions

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 207-218

  Ando, Amy W ^a   Chen, Xiaoxuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b HSBC Bank   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits; Contract; Duration; Economics; Ecosystem service; Optimal; Turnover; Voluntary

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053189034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00160.x     Document Type: Article

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