Economics of avoiding deforestation

Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 39-48

  Rametsteiner, Ewald ^a,b   Obersteiner, Michael ^a,c   Kindermann, Georg ^a   Sohngen, Brent ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b European Forest Institute (EFI)   (Austria)

^c Department of Economics and Finance Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)   (Austria)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84863854376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203880999     Document Type: Chapter

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