Payments for ecosystem services in relation to US and UK agri-environmental policy: Disruptive neoliberal innovation or hybrid policy adaptation?

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 397-408

  Potter, Clive A ^a   Wolf, Steven A ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agri environmental policy; Neoliberalization; Payments for ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905983217     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-014-9518-2     Document Type: Article

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