Small-scale forest carbon projects: Adapting CDM to low-income communities

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 250-259

  Boyd, Emily ^a   Gutierrez, Maria ^b   Chang, Manyu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Department of Environment and Water Resources of the State of Paraná ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Forest carbon; Low income communities; Small scale CDM

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; LOW INCOME POPULATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 34248350327     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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