Carbon, forests and the REDD paradox

ORYX

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 330-334

  Sandbrook, Chris ^a   Nelson, Fred ^b   Adams, William M ^a   Agrawal, Arun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Fred Nelson Maliasili Initiatives Ltd   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; decentralization; global climate change; governance; payments for ecosystem services; REDD; tenure; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECENTRALIZATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMISSION CONTROL; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLICY MAKING; TENURE RELATIONS; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 77958500803     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605310000475     Document Type: Article

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