Can Conservation Contracts Co-exist with Change? Payment for Ecosystem Services in the Context of Adaptive Decision-Making and Sustainability

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 69-85

  Hayes, Tanya ^a,e   Murtinho, Felipe ^a   Cárdenas Camacho, Luis Mario ^b   Crespo, Patricio ^c   McHugh, Sarah ^d   Salmerón, David ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fundación Natura   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA   (Ecuador)

^d Seattle University ^*  (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Ecosystem services; Institutions; Latin America

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECOSYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ADAPTIVE DECISION MAKING; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FLEXIBILITY MECHANISMS; LATIN AMERICA; NATURAL RESOURCE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURE OF DECISION MAKINGS; SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COEXISTENCE; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; CONTRACT; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MARKET; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LATIN AMERICA;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84920766436     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0380-1     Document Type: Article

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