Are Payments for Forest Conservation a Cost-Effective Way to Fight Climate Change? A Meta-Analysis
Deforestation, especially in the tropics, is bad news. It contributes to climate change, but also to the degradation of biodiversity and the decrease in the quality and availability of water re-sources. Payments for forest conservation, which compensate landowners for the preservation of forest cover, have been proposed as a way to curb deforestation. Very conflicting… Continue reading Are Payments for Forest Conservation a Cost-Effective Way to Fight Climate Change? A Meta-Analysis