Building the forest-climate bandwagon: REDD + and the logic of problem amelioration

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 85-103

  McDermott, Constance L ^a   Levin, Kelly ^b   Cashore, Benjamin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 79960553404     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/GLEP_a_00070     Document Type: Article

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