How to sell ecosystem services: A guide for designing new markets

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 297-304

  Banerjee, Simanti ^a   Secchi, Silvia ^b   Fargione, Joseph ^c   Polasky, Stephen ^d   Kraft, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INCENTIVE; LANDOWNER; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84881418679     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/120044     Document Type: Review

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