Quantifying the impacts of the quality of governance on deforestation

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 695-701

  Umemiya, Chisa ^a   Rametsteiner, Ewald ^b   Kraxner, Florian ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Governance; Impact assessment; Quality of governance; REDD plus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORY;

EID: 78649864053     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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