When payments for environmental services will work for conservation

Conservation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 230-237

  Wunder, Sven ^a  

^a Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Economics; Equity; Incentives; Institutions; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881620126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12034     Document Type: Review

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