Interprovincial and interannual differences in the causes of land-use fires in Sumatra, Indonesia

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 375-387

  Stolle, Fred ^a   Lambin, E F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Deforestation; Fire; Forest; Indonesia; Land use; Sumatra

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; FIRE HAZARDS; LAND USE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LAND ALLOCATION; LANDSCAPE;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS BURNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LAND USE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; DEFORESTATION; DESTRUCTION; FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INDONESIA; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LOGGING; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PLANTATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 0347719565     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892903000390     Document Type: Article

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