Reducing carbon transaction costs in community-based forest management

Climate Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 433-443

  Skutsch, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Environmental service payments; LULUCF; P GIS; Participatory carbon measuring and monitoring; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; TRANSACTION COST;

EID: 29144450952     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2005.9685568     Document Type: Article

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