Assessing sustainable forest management under REDD+: A community-based labour perspective

Ecological Economics

Volumn 93, Issue , 2013, Pages 94-103

  Bottazzi, Patrick ^a,d   Cattaneo, Andrea ^b   Rocha, David Crespo ^c   Rist, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^c FLACSO ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amazon; Bolivia; Deforestation; Labour input; REDD+; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-OFF;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA;

EID: 84878602826     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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