Leakage from avoided deforestation compensation policy: Concepts, empirical evidence and corrective policy options

Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 151-172

  Murray, Brian C ^a,b  

^a Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84860711982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203880999     Document Type: Chapter

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