Governing a pioneer program on payment for watershed services: Stakeholder involvement, legal frameworks and early lessons from the Atlantic forest of Brazil

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 16, Issue , 2015, Pages 23-32

  Richards, Ryan C ^a,b   Rerolle, Julia ^c,d   Aronson, James ^e,f   Pereira, Paulo Henrique ^g   Gonçalves, Helena ^d   Brancalion, Pedro H S ^d  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^f MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^g Environmental Secretariat of Extrema Extrema   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Environmental compliance; Forest restoration; Participation; Payment for ecosystem services; PES financing; PES governance; PES legislation; Water policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942612642     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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