Can carbon-trading schemes help to protect China's most diverse forest ecosystems? A case study from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan

Land Use Policy

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 646-656

  Yi, Zhuang Fang ^a,b,c   Wong, Grace ^d   Cannon, Charles H ^b,e   Xu, Jianchu ^a,c   Beckschäfer, Philip ^f   Swetnam, Ruth D ^g  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^c WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^e TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^g STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Carbon sequestration; Net present value; REDD+; Rubber monoculture; Xishuangbanna

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894026481     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

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