Environmental impacts of large-scale oil palm enterprises exceed that of smallholdings in Indonesia

Conservation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-33

  Lee, Janice Ser Huay ^a   Abood, Sinan ^a   Ghazoul, Jaboury ^a   Barus, Baba ^b   Obidzinski, Krystof ^c   Koh, Lian Pin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Agri business; Carbon emissions; Deforestation; Elaeis guineensis; Farmer; Tree crop; Tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881296887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12039     Document Type: Article

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