Assessing the roles of community forestry in climate change mitigation and adaptation: A case study from Nepal

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 360, Issue , 2016, Pages 400-407

  Pandey, Shiva Shankar ^a   Cockfield, Geoff ^a   Maraseni, Tek Narayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon stock; Climate change; Community forests; Livelihoods; REDD+

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY;

CARBON STOCKS; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; COMMUNITY FOREST; COMMUNITY FOREST USER GROUPS; LIVELIHOODS; REDD; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION DIVERSITIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84949320044     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.09.040     Document Type: Article

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