Parks versus payments: Reconciling divergent policy responses to biodiversity loss and climate change from tropical deforestation

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Busch, Jonah ^a   Grantham, Hedley S ^a  

^a Conservation International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE GASES; RESEARCH;

BIODIVERSITY LOSS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; FOREST DEGRADATION; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; REDUCING EMISSIONS; SPATIAL PRIORITIZATION; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; DISTURBANCE; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLICY ANALYSIS; PRIORITIZATION; PROTECTED AREA; RARE SPECIES; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEASONAL VARIATION;

INDONESIA;

EID: 84885674661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034028     Document Type: Article

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