Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1761-1772

  Newton, Peter ^a   Agrawal, Arun ^a   Wollenberg, Lini ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Deforestation; Greenhouse gas emissions; Intervention; Land use change; Livelihoods

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGROFORESTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION; FACILITATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE CHANGE; MARKET SYSTEM; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

GLYCINE MAX; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84889098955     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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