The effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services at delivering improvements in water quality: lessons for experiments at the landscape scale

Background Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) are used in impact evaluation in a range of fields. However, despite calls for their greater use in environmental management, their use to evaluate landscape scale interventions remains rare. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) incentivise land users to...

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Main Authors: Edwin L. Pynegar, Julia P.G. Jones, James M. Gibbons, Nigel M. Asquith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/5753.pdf