Building on forest governance reforms through FLEGT: The best way of controlling forests' contribution to climate change?

Review of European Community and International Environmental Law

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-170

  Dooley, Kate ^a   Ozinga, Saskia ^a  

^a FERN ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLICY REFORM; TIMBER INDUSTRY; TIMBER TRADE;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84555190378     PISSN: 09628797     EISSN: 14679388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9388.2011.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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27. K. Dooley et al., n. 32 above.
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31. see also T. Griffiths et al., Cutting Corners (FERN,FPP, 2008), found at http://www.fern.org/sites/fern.org/files/document%20cutting%20corners.pdf?.