Opportunities and challenges to capturing the multiple potential benefits of REDD+ in a traditional transnational savanna-woodland region in West Africa

Ambio

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 309-319

  Olsson, E Gunilla A ^a   Ouattara, Syna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community based management; Medicinal plants; REDD+; Sustainable use of woodland biodiversity; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EMISSION CONTROL; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; MEDICINAL PLANT; SAVANNA; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; WOODLAND;

AFRICA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; TREE;

AFRICA, WESTERN; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; INTERNATIONALITY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RURAL POPULATION; TREES;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84878277024     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-012-0362-6     Document Type: Review

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