Importance of forest landscape quality for companies operating in nature tourism areas

Land Use Policy

Volumn 107, Issue , 2021, Pages

  Mäntymaa, Erkki ^a   Tyrväinen, Liisa ^a   Juutinen, Artti ^a,b   Kurttila, Mikko ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contingent behavior; Forest landscapes; Nature based tourism companies; Payments for ecosystem services; Private forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 85106957249     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104095     Document Type: Article

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