Benefits of tropical forest management under the new climate change agreement-a case study in Cambodia

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 384-392

  Sasaki, Nophea ^a   Yoshimoto, Atsushi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon price; Deforestation; Financial returns; Forest degradation; Forest management costs; Opportunity costs; REDD plus

Indexed keywords

PALM OIL; RUBBER;

ACACIA; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOGGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ACACIA; ELAEIS; TECTONA GRANDIS;

EID: 77954457575     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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