Predatory corporations, failing governance, and the fate of forests in Papua New Guinea

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-100

  Laurance, William F ^a   Kakul, Titus ^a   Keenan, Rodney J ^b   Sayer, Jeffrey ^a   Passingan, Simon ^c   Clements, Gopalasamy R ^a,d   Villegas, Felipe ^e   Sodhi, Navjot S ^f  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Barefoot Community Services   (Papua New Guinea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Corruption; Deforestation; Forest management; Logging; Multinational corporations; REDD; Tropical timber

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051968791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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