Reassessing the forest impacts of protection: The challenge of nonrandom location and a corrective method

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1185, Issue , 2010, Pages 135-149

  Joppa, Lucas ^a   Pfaff, Alexander ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoided deforestation; Biodiversity; Conservation; Deforestation; Effectiveness; Impact; Matching; Parks; Protected areas; Regression

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; LANDSCAPE; REVIEW;

EID: 76849087652     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05162.x     Document Type: Review

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