Economic drivers of tropical deforestation for agriculture

Managing Forest Carbon in a Changing Climate

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 305-320

  Goers, Lauren ^a   Lawson, Janet ^b   Garen, Eva ^c  

^a WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; TROPICS;

FOREST DEGRADATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY; MACROECONOMIC POLICIES; TROPICAL COUNTRIES; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION;

DEFORESTATION;

EID: 84900344967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2232-3_14     Document Type: Chapter

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