Mining and the African environment

Conservation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 302-311

  Edwards, David P ^a   Sloan, Sean ^a   Weng, Lingfei ^a   Dirks, Paul ^a   Sayer, Jeffrey ^a   Laurance, William F ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity banking; Central Africa; Deforestation; Governance capacity; Mineral mining; Poverty alleviation; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901667594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12076     Document Type: Article

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