Payments for environmental services to mitigate climate change: Agriculture and forestry compared

Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 170-180

  Wunder, Sven ^a   Börner, Jan ^a  

^a Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)   (Brazil)

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EID: 84869240035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203144510     Document Type: Chapter

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