Assessing the likelihood of widespread landholder adoption of afforestation and reforestation projects

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 306-320

  Schirmer, Jacki ^a,b,c   Bull, Lyndall ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Afforestation; Carbon sequestration; Mitigation; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894309311     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.11.009     Document Type: Article

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