Paying for nature: What every conservationist should know about political economy

ORYX

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 226-231

  Scales, Ivan R ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental values; Green capitalism; Market environmentalism; Neoliberal conservation; Payments for environmental services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926418298     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605314000015     Document Type: Article

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