Using sciences to improve the economic efficiency of conservation policies

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-23

  Wu, JunJie ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation policies; Distributional effects; Ecosystem linkages; Spatial connections; Targeted policies; Threshold effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 8344232722     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500005608     Document Type: Review

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