Estimating the Environmental Costs of Africa's Massive "development Corridors"

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 3202-3208

  Laurance, William F ^a   Sloan, Sean ^a   Weng, Lingfei ^a   Sayer, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGRICULTURE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84955643605     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.10.046     Document Type: Article

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