Benefits and costs of oil palm expansion in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, under different policy scenarios

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1011-1021

  Sumarga, Elham ^a,b   Hein, Lars ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Central Kalimantan; Ecosystem services; Logistic regression; Moratorium; Oil palm expansion; Trade off

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930173031     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0815-0     Document Type: Article

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