Large and intact forests: Drivers and inhibitors of deforestation and forest degradation

Managing Forest Carbon in a Changing Climate

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 285-304

  Blom, Benjamin ^a   Cummins, Ian ^b   Ashton, Mark S ^c  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b Forest Carbon Ltd   (Indonesia)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION;

CENTRAL AFRICA; CURRENT DRIVERS; DAMAGING EFFECTS; FOREST DEGRADATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL CLIMATES; NORTHERN EURASIA; SEQUESTERING CARBON;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84897599793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2232-3_13     Document Type: Chapter

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