No farmer left behind in sustainable biofuel production

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2512-2516

  Lee, Janice Ser Huay ^a   Rist, Lucy ^b   Obidzinski, Krystof ^c   Ghazoul, Jaboury ^a   Koh, Lian Pin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Certification; Community management; Smallholders; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BIOFUEL; CAPACITY BUILDING; CERTIFICATION; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMY OF SCALE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INCENTIVE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POLICY APPROACH; SMALLHOLDER; SOCIAL IMPACT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84860397616     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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