Role of risk in targeting payments for environmental services

Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 217-234

  Alix Garcia, Jennifer ^a   De Janvry, Alain ^b   Sadoulet, Elisabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84909070528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203880999     Document Type: Chapter

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