Securitizing REDD+? Problematizing the emerging illegal timber trade and forest carbon interface in East Africa

Geoforum

Volumn 60, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-82

  Cavanagh, Connor Joseph ^a,b   Vedeld, Pål Olav ^a   Trædal, Leif Tore ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Environmental crime; Forest governance; Illegal timber trade; Political economy; REDD+; Transnational law enforcement

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CRIME; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; POLITICAL ECONOMY; TIMBER TRADE;

EAST AFRICA;

EID: 84922346139     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.01.011     Document Type: Article

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