Payments for Ecosystem Services as Incentives for Collective Action

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1155-1169

  Muradian, Roldan ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

behavioral economics; collective action; environmental governance; payments for ecosystem services; transaction costs economics

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INCENTIVE; TRANSACTION COST;

EID: 84885067118     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2013.820816     Document Type: Article

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