Social and environmental footprints of carbon payments: A Case Study from Uganda

Payments for Environmental Services, Forest Conservation and Climate Change: Livelihoods in the REDD?

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 160-184

  German, Laura A ^a   Ruhweza, Alice ^b   Mwesigwa, Richard ^c   Kalanzi, Charlotte ^c  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^b University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

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EID: 84871918737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781849806015.00013     Document Type: Chapter

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