Climate co-benefits of water quality trading in the chesapeake bay watershed

Water Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 758-765

  Gasper, Rebecca R ^a   Selman, Mindy ^b   Ruth, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change mitigation; Ecosystem services; Environmental markets; Nonpoint source emission; Water quality trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870496992     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2012.166     Document Type: Article

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