Avoiding the loss of shade coffee plantations: How to derive conservation payments for risk-averse land-users

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 331-347

  Castro, Luz Maria ^a   Calvas, Baltazar ^a   Hildebrandt, Patrick ^a   Knoke, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Biodiversity conservation; Conservation payments; Diversification; Mean variance; Stochastic dominance; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; COFFEE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MAIZE; PLANTATION; RISK FACTOR; STOCHASTICITY; WILD POPULATION;

ECUADOR;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84874946110     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-012-9554-0     Document Type: Article

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