Designing REDD+ schemes when forest users are not forest landowners: Evidence from a survey-based experiment in Kenya

Ecological Economics

Volumn 116, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-57

  Veronesi, Marcella ^a,b   Reutemann, Tim ^b   Zabel, Astrid ^c   Engel, Stefanie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Deforestation; Integrated conservation and development policy; Land tenure; Payments for ecosystem services; REDD

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; DESIGN METHOD; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMISSION CONTROL; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND TENURE; LANDOWNER; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

KENYA;

EID: 84928140997     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.04.009     Document Type: Article

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