Incentive-compatible payments for watershed services along the Eastern Route of China's South-North Water Transfer Project

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 25, Issue , 2017, Pages 213-226

  Sheng, Jichuan ^a,b   Webber, Michael ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eastern route; Evolutionary game; Numerical simulation; Payments for watershed services; South North Water Transfer Project

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019092533     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.04.006     Document Type: Article

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