Assessing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Assessing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have increasingly been implemented to protect and restore ecosystems worldwide. The effectiveness of conservation investments in PES may differ under alternative policy scenarios and may not be sustainable because of uncertainties in human responses to policies...

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Main Authors: Xiaodong Chen, Andrés Viña, Ashton Shortridge, Li An, Jianguo Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2014-03-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
agent-based modeling
conservation investments
coupled human-nature systems
fuelwood
Natural Forest Conservation Program
payments for ecosystem services
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss1/art7/

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss1/art7/

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