Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4956-4961

  Nolte, Christoph ^a   Agrawal, Arun ^a   Silvius, Kirsten M ^b   Britaldo S Soares Filho, ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TROPICS;

BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; TREES;

EID: 84875550090     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214786110     Document Type: Article

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