Brazil's market for trading forest certificates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Soares Filho, Britaldo ^a   Rajâo, Raoni ^a   Merry, Frank ^b   Rodrigues, Hermann ^a   Davis, Juliana ^a   Lima, Letícia ^a,c   Macedo, Marcia ^d   Coe, Michael ^d   Carneiro, Arnaldo ^e   Santiago, Leonardo ^a,f  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e Woods Hole Research Center ^*  (Brazil)

^f Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CERTIFICATION; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; LAND USE; VEGETATION; FOREST; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84962905589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152311     Document Type: Article

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