Refined carbon accounting for oil palm agriculture: Disentangling potential contributions of indirect emissions and smallholder farmers

Carbon Management

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 347-349

  Carlson, Kimberly M ^a,b   Curran, Lisa M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

biofuels; deforestation; degradation; indirect land use change; Indonesia; livelihoods; Malaysia; peatlands; roundtables; tropical forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881273191     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.13.39     Document Type: Editorial

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