China, India, and the environment

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5972, 2010, Pages 1457-1459

  Bawa, Kamaljit S ^a,b,c   Koh, Lian Pin ^d   Lee, Tien Ming ^e,f   Liu, Jianguo ^g   Ramakrishnan, P S ^h   Yu, Douglas W ^i,j   Zhang, Ya Ping ⁱ   Raven, Peter H ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

ⁱ KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^k MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; HABITAT LOSS; MITIGATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; POLITICS; TREE;

CHINA; INDIA;

WATER;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLITICS; TREES; WATER;

EID: 77949782347     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1185164     Document Type: Short Survey

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