National forest policy as a platform for biosphere carbon management: the case of community forestry in Cameroon

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 204-218

  Minang, Peter A ^a   Bressers, Hans Th A ^b   Skutsch, Margaret M ^b   McCall, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Clean Development Mechanism; Community forestry; Land use, land use change and forestry; Policy instruments

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; CAMEROON; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; LAND USE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

EID: 34047208570     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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