Trade-offs and synergies between carbon storage and livelihood benefits from forest commons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 17667-17670

  Chhatre, Ashwini ^a   Agrawal, Arun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Decentralization; Institutions; Mitigation; REDD

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; DEFORESTATION; FOREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; TREES;

EID: 70449584585     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905308106     Document Type: Article

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