Why ignore tropical deforestation? A proposal for including forest conservation in the Kyoto Protocal

Unasylva

Volumn 56, Issue 222, 2005, Pages 27-30

  Moutinho, Paulo ^a   Santilli, Marcio ^b   Schwartzman, Stephan ^c   Rodrigues, Liana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Socioambiental ISA   (Brazil)

^c International Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; KYOTO PROTOCOL; NATURE CONSERVATION; SOVEREIGNTY;

EID: 33646258232     PISSN: 00416436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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