Grounding Forest Carbon: Property Relations and Avoided Deforestation in Cambodia

Human Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 693-706

  Milne, Sarah ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Forest carbon; Political ecology; Property relations; REDD

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; FOREST DYNAMICS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LAND USE PLANNING; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

CAMBODIA;

ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM;

EID: 84867551459     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9526-z     Document Type: Article

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