Mixing carrots and sticks to conserve forests in the Brazilian amazon: A spatial probabilistic modeling approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Börner, Jan ^a,b   Marinho, Eduardo ^b   Wunder, Sven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BUDGET; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; INCOME; LAND USE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; REWARD; AGRICULTURE; COMPENSATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DAUCUS CAROTA;

AGRICULTURE; BRAZIL; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FORESTS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; INCOME; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84922350004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116846     Document Type: Article

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