Capabilities as justice: Analysing the acceptability of payments for ecosystem services (PES) through 'social multi-criteria evaluation'

Ecological Economics

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 99-113

  Kolinjivadi, Vijay ^a   Gamboa, Gonzalo ^b   Adamowski, Jan ^a   Kosoy, Nicolás ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capabilities approach; PES; Social multi criteria evaluation; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LAND USE PLANNING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84938153579     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.07.008     Document Type: Article

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