Community capacity for implementing clean development mechanism projects within community forests in Cameroon

Environmental Management

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 615-630

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Clean Development Mechanism; Community capacity; Community forests

Indexed keywords

CAMEROON; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; COMMUNITY CAPACITY; COMMUNITY FORESTS;

CARBON; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ASYMMETRY; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; NATURAL RESOURCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; COMMUNITY; FOREST; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GAS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CAMEROON; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; FORESTRY; TREES;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34247365036     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0275-2     Document Type: Article

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