Effectiveness and distributional impacts of payments for reduced carbon emissions from deforestation

Erdkunde

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 365-384

  Knoke, Thomas ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Barkmann, Jan ^b   Pohle, Perdita ^c   Calvas, Baltazar ^a   Medina, Carolina ^a   Aguirre, Nikolay ^d   Günter, Sven ^a   Stimm, Bernd ^a   Mosandl, Reinhard ^a   von Walter, Frankvon ^b   Maza, Byron ^b   Gerique, Andres ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d National University of Loja   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Conservation payments; Sustainable land use; Tropical forest conservation

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INCENTIVE; LAND USE; PASTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

ECUADOR;

BOS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PODOCARPUS;

EID: 77950276862     PISSN: 00140015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2009.04.06     Document Type: Article

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