Forest conservation and slippage: Evidence from mexico's national payments for ecosystem services program

Land Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 613-638

  Alix Garcia, Jennifer M ^a   Shapiro, Elizabeth N ^b   Sims, Katharine R E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84867309146     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.88.4.613     Document Type: Article

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