Assessing the effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services: An agent- based modeling approach

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Xiaodong ^a   Viña, Andrés ^b   Shortridge, Ashton ^b   An, Li ^c   Liu, Jianguo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Conservation investments; Coupled human nature systems; Fuelwood; Natural Forest Conservation Program; Payments for ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FORESTRY POLICY; FUELWOOD; INVESTMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

CHINA; SICHUAN; WOLONG NATURE RESERVE;

EID: 84897507398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05578-190107     Document Type: Article

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