Deforestation and forest degradation in India -implications for REDD+

Current Science

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1117-1125

  Ravindranath, N H ^a   Srivastava, Nalin ^a   Murthy, Indu K ^a   Malaviya, Sumedha ^a   Munsi, Madhushree ^a   Sharma, Nitasha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Deforestation; Forest degradation; Global warming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864502798     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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