Fairly efficient, efficiently fair: Lessons from designing and testing payment schemes for ecosystem services in Asia

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 12, Issue , 2015, Pages 16-28

  Leimona, Beria ^a   van Noordwijk, Meine ^a   de Groot, Rudolf ^b   Leemans, Rik ^b  

^a ICRAF World Agroforestry Centre Bogor   (Indonesia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asia; Community based natural resource management; Institution and governance; Participatory approach; Payment for ecosystem services; Pro poor policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920913869     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.12.012     Document Type: Article

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