Making REDD+ transparent: The politics of measuring, reporting, and verification systems

Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 182-201

  Gupta, Aarti ^a   Vijge, Marjanneke J ^a   Turnhout, Esther ^a   Pistorius, Till ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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