Carbon pools and poverty peaks in Lao PDR

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 390-399

  Hett, Cornelia ^a,b   Heinimann, Andreas ^a,b   Epprecht, Michael ^a,b   Messerli, Peter ^a   Hurni, Kaspar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North South   (Laos)

Author keywords

Carbon stocks; cobenefit; Lao PDR; poverty alleviation; REDD +; shifting cultivation; spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; INSTRUMENTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TYPOLOGY;

LAOS;

EID: 84871572149     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-12-00065.1     Document Type: Article

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