Breaking the Link between Environmental Degradation and Oil Palm Expansion: A Method for Enabling Sustainable Oil Palm Expansion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Smit, Hans Harmen ^a,b   Meijaard, Erik ^c,d,e   van der Laan, Carina ^a   Mantel, Stephan ^f   Budiman, Arif ^g,h   Verweij, Pita ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b REDD Energy and Agriculture Program (REAP)   (Indonesia)

^c Jalan Raya Petitenget 1000X   (Indonesia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^f ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

^g PADJADJARAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^h World Wide Fund for Nature Indonesia   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELAEIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; INDONESIA; LAND USE; SOIL DEGRADATION; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURE; ARECACEAE; BORNEO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; RISK;

EID: 84883651797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068610     Document Type: Article

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