Farmers' Willingness to Participate in Payment-for-Environmental-Services Programmes

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 604-626

  Ma, Shan ^a   Swinton, Scott M ^b   Lupi, Frank ^b   Jolejole Foreman, Christina ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Conservation adoption; Payments for environmental services; Stated preferences; Willingness to accept; Willingness to consider

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FARMERS ATTITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865547814     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2012.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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