Does Indonesia's REDD+ moratorium on new concessions spare imminently threatened forests?

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 222-231

  Sloan, Sean ^a   Edwards, David P ^a   Laurance, William F ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Additionality; Forest; Forest carbon; Indonesia; Moratorium; Peat; REDD+

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862546134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00233.x     Document Type: Article

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