Payment for ecosystem services from forests

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 361-380

  Alix Garcia, Jennifer ^a   Wolff, Hendrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

afforestation; climate change; conditional cash transfers; deforestation; environmental policy; PES; reforestation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908303449     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-100913-012524     Document Type: Article

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