Assessing the effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services fordiversifying rubber in Yunnan, China

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 69, Issue , 2015, Pages 187-195

  Smajgl, Alex ^a,c   Xu, Jianchu ^b   Egan, Stephen ^c   Yi, Zhuang Fang ^b   Ward, John ^a   Su, Yufang ^b  

^a Mekong Region Futures Institute   (Thailand)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; China; Conservation; Monoculture; Payment for ecosystem services; Rubber

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; RUBBER; RUBBER INDUSTRY; RUBBER PLANTATIONS;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; MONOCULTURE; PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; POLICY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; POLITICAL DEBATES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MONOCULTURE; PLANTATION; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; RUBBER;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84927758927     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.03.014     Document Type: Article

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