Enabling communities to benefit from REDD+: Pragmatic assessment of carbon benefits

Carbon Management

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 571-573

  Berry, Nicholas J ^a   Harley, Robert ^b   Ryan, Casey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BioClimate Research and Development   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accounting; additionality; carbon benefits; leakage; livelihoods; permanence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890376687     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.13.62     Document Type: Review

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