Payments for scenic beauty

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Date

2007

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Publisher

Blacksburg, VA: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech

Abstract

Although payments for scenic beauty are older than payment schemes for most other environmental services, scenic beauty itself is hard to define. It often encompasses a range of environmental services for consumptive (hunting, fishing) or non-consumptive (bird watching, boating) use.

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Keywords

Tourism, Payments for environmental services, Market demand, PES, Scenic beauty, Ecosystem

Citation

USAID PES Brief 2.4