Farm households' preferences for collective and individual actions to improve water-related ecosystem services: The Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 7, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-33

  Mulatu, Dawit W ^a   van der Veen, Anne ^a,b   van Oel, Pieter R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Collective action; Individual action; Payment for ecosystem services; Water related ecosystem services; Willingness to accept

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894812674     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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