Poverty, payments, and ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania

Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction: The Application of Ecology in Development Solutions

Volumn 9781461401865, Issue , 2012, Pages 173-189

  Fisher, Brendan ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0186-5_13     Document Type: Chapter

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