Exploring socioeconomic impacts of forest based mitigation projects: Lessons from Brazil and Bolivia

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 419-433

  Boyd, Emily ^a   May, Peter ^b   Chang, Manyu ^c   Veiga, Fernando C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto Rede Brasileira Agroflorestal REBRAF   (Brazil)

^c Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Hídricos do Paraná   (Brazil)

^d THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest based mitigation; Stakeholders; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

AGRICULTURE; AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERVIEW; LAND USE; PILOT STUDY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFORESTATION; RESEARCH; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 34447558462     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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