Can Financial Technology Innovate Benefit Distribution in Payments for Ecosystem Services and REDD+?

Ecological Economics

Volumn 139, Issue , 2017, Pages 150-157

  Thompson, Benjamin S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Benefit sharing; Conservation; Economic incentives; Environmental services; Mobile payments; Transaction cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018341932     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.04.008     Document Type: Note

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