Lessons in the design of payments for environmental services: Theory and experience

Forests and Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 202-214

  Wunder, Sven ^a   Nelson, Harry ^b   Nikolakis, William ^b  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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