Unravelling property relations around forest carbon

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 188-205

  Mahanty, Sango ^a   Dressler, Wolfram ^b   Milne, Sarah ^a   Filer, Colin ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Access; Carbon; Forests; Land; Property; REDD+

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; RURAL AREA;

CAMBODIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84880029540     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12024     Document Type: Article

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