Potential for integrating community-based monitoring into REDD+

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1815-1833

  Torres, Arturo Balderas ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Benefit sharing; Carbon inventories; Participatory schemes and mapping

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

BENEFIT SHARING; CARBON INVENTORIES; COMMUNITY-BASED MONITORING; FOREST DEGRADATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

CARBON EMISSION; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MAPPING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON; DEFORESTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84905668089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5081815     Document Type: Article

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