Evidence regarding the ecological benefits of payment for ecological services programs from China’s grassland ecological compensation policy
We provide evidence that payment for ecological services programs have had a significant and robust positive impact on grassland quality by focusing on China’s grassland ecological compensation policy (GECP)—the planet’s largest. Our baseline results are obtained from a difference-in-differences est...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Environmental Science |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.989897/full |