Social preferences towards ecosystem services provided by cloud forests in the neotropics: Implications for conservation strategies

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 861-872

  Higuera, Diego ^a   Martín López, Berta ^b   Sánchez Jabba, Andrés ^a  

^a Programa de Investigación   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud forests; Ecosystem services; Tropical Andes; Willingness to give up time; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881026049     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0379-1     Document Type: Article

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