Forest restitution and protected area effectiveness in post-socialist Romania

Biological Conservation

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 204-212

  Knorn, Jan ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^b   Szabo, Alina ^c   Mindrescu, Marcel ^d   Keeton, William S ^e   Abrudan, Ioan ^f   Griffiths, Patrick ^a   Gancz, Vladimir ^g   Hostert, Patrick ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d STEFAN CEL MARE UNIVERSITY OF SUCEAVA   (Romania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^f TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^g Institutul de Cercetari si Amenajari Silvice Romania   (Romania)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Collapse of socialism; Deforestation; Effectiveness; Forest restitution; Illegal logging; Landsat; Protected area; Remote sensing; Romania

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; LANDSAT; LOGGING (TIMBER); OWNERSHIP; PROTECTED AREA; REMOTE SENSING;

ROMANIA;

EID: 84857447000     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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