Defeating the 'resource curse': Key priorities for conserving Papua New Guinea's native forests

Biological Conservation

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-40

  Laurance, William F ^a   Kakul, Titus ^a   Tom, Memory ^a   Wahya, Reza ^a   Laurance, Susan G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon trading; Corruption; Deforestation; Forest management; Globalization; Governance; Logging; Multinational corporations; Papua New Guinea; REDD; Tropical timber

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CORRUPTION; DEFORESTATION; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; EXPORT; FAMILY PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; LOGGING (TIMBER); MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITIZATION; PROTECTED AREA; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIMBER INDUSTRY; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; TROPICAL FOREST; WILDFIRE;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

ELAEIS;

EID: 84862002578     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.037     Document Type: Review

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