Afforestation and reforestation with the clean development mechanism: Potentials, problems, and future directions

Forest Science and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 45-56

  Razak, Sarah Abdul ^a   Son, Yowhan ^a   Lee, Woo Kyun ^a   Cho, Yongsung ^a   Noh, Nam Jin ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

A R CDM; Afforestation; Clean development mechanism; Methodology; Project design document; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894328564     PISSN: 21580103     EISSN: 21580715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21580103.2009.9656347     Document Type: Article

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