Design considerations in supporting payments for ecosystem services from community-managed forests in Nepal

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 30, Issue , 2018, Pages 61-72

  Paudyal, Kiran ^a   Baral, Himlal ^b   Bhandari, Santosh Prasad ^c   Keenan, Rodney John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c Indufor Asia Pacific Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Community forestry; Ecosystem services; Environmental justice; Market instruments; Nepal; Opportunity cost; Poverty reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041596047     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.01.016     Document Type: Article

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