Current challenges and perspectives for governing forest restoration

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3022-3030

  Guariguata, Manuel R ^a   Brancalion, Pedro H S ^b  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Global policy; Multiscalar governance; Natural forest regeneration; Payment for environmental services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921462057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5123022     Document Type: Editorial

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