Carbon Sequestration in Community Forests: Trade-offs, Multiple Outcomes and Institutional Diversity in the Bolivian Amazon

Development and Change

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 105-131

  Bottazzi, Patrick ^a,b   Crespo, David ^c   Soria, Harry ^c   Dao, Hy ^d   Serrudo, Marcelo ^e   Benavides, Jean Paul ^f   Schwarzer, Stefan ^g   Rist, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c FLACSO ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

^f Center for the Study of Economic and Social Reality (CERES)   (Bolivia)

^g United Nations Environmental Programme   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; DEFORESTATION; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; FORESTRY PRACTICE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PRIVATIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE-OFF;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA;

EID: 84891946960     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12076     Document Type: Article

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