Protected area types, strategies and impacts in Brazil’s Amazon: Public protected area strategies do not yield a consistent ranking of protected area types by impact

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1681, 2015, Pages

  Pfaff, Alexander ^a   Robalino, Juan ^b,c   Sandoval, Catalina ^b   Herrera, Diego ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Evaluation; Matching; Parks; Reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD)

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; NATURE CONSERVATION; PARK MANAGEMENT; PROTECTED AREA;

AMAZONIA;

BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; FORESTRY; POLITICS; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC POLICY;

BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; FORESTS; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 84944104749     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0273     Document Type: Article

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