Conflicts over industrial tree plantations in the South: Who, how and why?

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 165-176

  Gerber, Julien François ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrarian conflicts; Deforestation; Global warming mitigation; Peasant resistance; Political ecology; Tree plantations

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN REFORM; CARBON SINK; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GLOBAL WARMING; LITERATURE REVIEW; MITIGATION; MONOCULTURE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PEASANT AGRICULTURE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; WEAPON;

EID: 78751704808     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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