Linking community-based and national REDD+ monitoring: A review of the potential

Carbon Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-104

  Pratihast, Arun Kumar ^a,b   Herold, Martin ^a   De Sy, Veronique ^a   Murdiyarso, Daniel ^c,d   Skutsch, Margaret ^e  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TH Köln University of Applied Sciences   (Germany)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^d BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^e INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; FOREST CHANGE; MONITORING SYSTEM; NATIONAL FORESTS; NATIONAL LEVEL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TECHNICAL CONDITIONS;

DEFORESTATION; DIGITAL STORAGE;

MONITORING;

CARBON; DATA STORAGE; DEFORESTATION; FORESTS; MONITORING;

EID: 84872788893     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.12.75     Document Type: Review

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