Win-win REDD+ approaches belie carbon-biodiversity trade-offs

Biological Conservation

Volumn 154, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-60

  Phelps, J ^a   Friess, D A ^a   Webb, E L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carbon; Emissions; Forest; Leakage; Policy; REDD; Safeguard

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CARBON EMISSION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LEAKAGE; POLICY MAKING; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-OFF; VALUATION;

EID: 84865792656     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.031     Document Type: Article

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