Payments for ecosystem services in China: Policy, practice, and progress

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 158, Issue , 2017, Pages 200-208

  Pan, Xingliang ^a,b   Xu, Linyu ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a   Yu, Bing ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Development and Reform Commission   (China)

Author keywords

Conservation policy; Eco compensation; Key ecological functional zone; Market based PES scheme; Payment for ecosystem services (PES)

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY;

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CONSERVATION POLICY; ECO COMPENSATIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FUNCTIONAL ZONES; INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS; PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (PES);

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 85019610974     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.04.127     Document Type: Review

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