Putting the plus first: Community forest enterprise as the platform for REDD+ in the Maya biosphere reserve, Guatemala

Tropical Conservation Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 365-383

  Hodgdon, Benjamin D ^a   Hayward, Jeffrey ^a   Samayoa, Omar ^b  

^a RAINFOREST ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Community forestry; Enterprise development; Environmental management standards; Forest carbon finance; Forest conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882600248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19400829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/194008291300600305     Document Type: Article

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