Considering farmer land use decisions in efforts to ‘scale up’ Payments for Watershed Services

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 23, Issue , 2017, Pages 238-247

  Richards, Ryan C ^a,b   Kennedy, Chris J ^a   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^a   Brancalion, Pedro H S ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008386023     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.12.016     Document Type: Article

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