Exploring climate justice for forest communities engaging in REDD+: Experiences from Tanzania

Forum for Development Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-29

  Bolin, Anna ^a   Tassa, Dominic Taku ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate justice; Distributional justice; Participation; Procedural justice; Redd (+)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891497012     PISSN: 08039410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2011.635380     Document Type: Article

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