Carrot or stick? Modelling how landowner behavioural responses can cause incentive-based forest governance to backfire.

Mitigating the negative impacts of declining worldwide forest cover remains a significant socio-ecological challenge, due to the dominant role of human decision-making. Here we use a Markov chain model of land-use dynamics to examine the impact of governance on forest cover in a region. Each land pa...

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Main Authors: Kirsten A Henderson, Madhur Anand, Chris T Bauch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3813756?pdf=render