Designing and implementing payments for ecosystem services programs: Lessons learned from China's cropland restoration experience

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 66-72

  Yin, Runsheng ^a,b   Liu, Tianjun ^a   Yao, Shunbo ^a   Zhao, Minjuan ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Ecological restoration; Payments for ecosystem services; Program effectiveness and efficiency; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

CHINA; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

CONSERVATION; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; RESTORATION;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84882711459     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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