Evaluating farmers' likely participation in a payment programme for water quality protection in the UK uplands

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 633-647

  Beharry Borg, Nesha ^a   Smart, James C R ^b,c   Termansen, Mette ^a,c   Hubacek, Klaus ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous preferences; Land management incentives; Latent class model; Payments for ecosystem services; WTA

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84878592108     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0282-9     Document Type: Article

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