Reductions in emissions from deforestation from Indonesia's moratorium on new oil palm, timber, and logging concessions

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

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1328-1333

  Busch, Jonah ^a   Ferretti Gallon, Kalifi ^a   Engelmann, Jens ^a   Wright, Max ^b   Austin, Kemen G ^c,d   Stolle, Fred ^c   Turubanova, Svetlana ^e   Potapov, Peter V ^e   Margono, Belinda ^e   Hansen, Matthew C ^e   Baccini, Alessandro ^f  

^a CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans Conservation International   (United States)

^c WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Impact evaluation; Land use change; REDD+

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ELAEIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FOREST; INDONESIA; LAND USE; LOGGING; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ELAEIS;

EID: 84922309448     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412514112     Document Type: Article

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