Simple Incentives and Group Dependence for Successful Payments for Ecosystem Services Programs: Evidence from an Experimental Game in Rural Lao PDR
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1 Southern Swedish Forest Research Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden 2 Ecosystem Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria 3 Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA 4 Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia 5 Center for South East Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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