Post-crackdown effectiveness of field-based forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Börner, Jan ^a,b   Kis Katos, Krisztina ^c   Hargrave, Jorge ^d   König, Konstantin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d Boston Consulting Group Brazil Ltd   (Brazil)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; RAIN FOREST; FOREST; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE;

BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTS; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT;

EID: 84929485285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121544     Document Type: Article

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