A landscape mosaics approach for characterizing swidden systems from a REDD+ perspective

Applied Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 608-618

  Hett, Cornelia ^a,b   Castella, Jean Christophe ^c,d   Heinimann, Andreas ^a   Messerli, Peter ^a   Pfund, Jean Laurent ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NCCR North South   (Laos)

^c UMR 220 GRED (IRD UPV Montpellier 3)   (Laos)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Landscape mosaics; Lao PDR; REDD+; Swidden agriculture

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

LAOS;

EID: 80051606217     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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