Economic instruments for nature conservation

Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 59-73

  Barrett, Christopher B ^a   Bulte, Erwin H ^b   Ferraro, Paul ^c   Wunder, Sven ^d  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Economic incentives; Economic instruments; Nature conservation; Payments for environmental services (PES); Poverty reduction; REDD; Regulatory approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873403604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118520178.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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