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The paper discusses methods to compensate for the costs incurred in the supply of forest ecological services (FES), i.e. government dominated and market-based instruments as well as progress made so far in China. Factors which constrain the supply of these services and potential policy improvements are presented.
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Liu, C., Wang, S., Zhang, W. et al. Compensation for forest ecological services in China. For. Stud. China 9, 68–79 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11632-007-0012-4
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