Foreign capital, forest change and regulatory compliance in Congo Basin forests

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Brandt, Jodi S ^a   Nolte, Christoph ^a   Steinberg, Jessica ^b   Agrawal, Arun ^a  

^a Universiry of Michigan   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

avoided deforestation; conservation success; counterfactual; logging concessions; quasiexperimental matching

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; INVESTMENTS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; TROPICS;

COUNTERFACTUAL; EMERGING ECONOMIES; FOREIGN CAPITAL; INDUSTRIAL LOGGING; QUASIEXPERIMENTAL MATCHING; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; TROPICAL COUNTRIES; TROPICAL FOREST LANDSCAPES;

ECONOMICS;

CAPITAL FLOW; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; FRAGMENTATION; INVESTMENT; LANDSCAPE; LOGGING (TIMBER); POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENT; LOGGING; TROPICS;

CONGO BASIN;

EID: 84899504928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/044007     Document Type: Article

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