Tropical countries may be willing to pay more to protect their forests

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 10113-10118

  Vincent, Jeffrey R ^a   Carson, Richard T ^b,c   DeShazo, J R ^d   Schwabe, Kurt A ^e   Ahmad, Ismariah ^f   Chong, Siew Kook ^g   Chang, Yii Tan ^g   Potts, Matthew D ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^g PE Research   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Protected area; REDD; Valuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CARBON STORAGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOREST; FORESTRY; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HOUSEHOLD; INCOME; LOGGING; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; POACHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TROPICS;

CHOICE EXPERIMENT; PROTECTED AREA; REDD; VALUATION;

CAPITAL FINANCING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MALAYSIA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84904279433     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312246111     Document Type: Article

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