This book presents a new framework for understanding, analyzing and improving agro-ecosystems services and their governance. It incorporates interdisciplinary approach taking into account the role of specific institutional environment (formal and informal rules and rights); behavioral characteristics of agents (preferences, bounded rationality, opportunism, risk aversion, trust); transactions costs and their critical factors (uncertainty, frequency, asset specificity, appropriability); comparative efficiency of market, private, public and hybrid modes of governance; efficiency of...