Effectiveness of Community Forest Management at reducing deforestation in Madagascar

Biological Conservation

Volumn 184, Issue , 2015, Pages 271-277

  Rasolofoson, Ranaivo A ^a,b   Ferraro, Paul J ^c   Jenkins, Clinton N ^d   Jones, Julia P G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Community Forest Management; Deforestation; Impact evaluation; Madagascar; Matching; Payments for ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; NATURAL RESOURCE;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 84922986699     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.01.027     Document Type: Article

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