Policy coherence and interplay between Zambia's forest, energy, agricultural and climate change policies and multilateral environmental agreements

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 181-198

  Kalaba, Felix Kanungwe ^a   Quinn, Claire Helen ^b   Dougill, Andrew John ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Forests; Governance; Policy interplay; REDD; Rio conventions

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREST; FOREST RESOURCE; FORESTRY; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; POLICY MAKING; UNITED NATIONS;

ZAMBIA;

EID: 84897579459     PISSN: 15679764     EISSN: 15731553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10784-013-9236-z     Document Type: Article

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