Can sustainable tropical forestry be made profitable? The potential and limitations of innovative incentive mechanisms

World Development

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1001-1016

  Richards, Michael ^a  

^a OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Externalities; Incentives; Institutional capacity; Tropical forestry

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0034124383     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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