Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation

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• Publication year

  2017

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  Science

• Publication date

  2017-07-21

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.aan0568PMID 28729505
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