Payment for ecosystem services, sustained behavioural change, and adaptive management: Peasant perspectives in the Colombian Andes

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 144-153

  Hayes, Tanya M ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural development; direct incentives; forest conservation; intrinsic motivation; Latin America; self efficacy

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; DIRECT INCENTIVES; FOREST CONSERVATION; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; LATIN AMERICA; SELF EFFICACY;

CONSERVATION;

FORESTRY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGROFORESTRY; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; INCENTIVE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; INCENTIVES; LATIN AMERICA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANDES; COLOMBIA; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84860787340     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892912000045     Document Type: Article

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