Optimizing investments in national-scale forest landscape restoration in Uganda to maximize multiple benefits

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Gourevitch, Jesse D ^a   Hawthorne, Peter L ^b   Keeler, Bonnie L ^b   Beatty, Craig R ^c   Greve, Michelle ^d   Verdone, Michael A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Global Forest and Climate Change Programa (GFCCP) International Union for Conservation of Nature   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bonn Challenge; carbon; decision making ecosystem services; forest landscape restoration; opportunity costs; spatial optimization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INVESTMENTS; RESTORATION;

BONN CHALLENGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; SPATIAL OPTIMIZATION;

LAND RECLAMATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVESTMENT; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; NATIONAL PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; TRADE-OFF;

UGANDA;

EID: 85006000147     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114027     Document Type: Article

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