Time, space, place, and the Bonn Challenge global forest restoration target

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 903-911

  Verdone, Michael ^a   Seidl, Andrew ^b  

^a BBC Research and Consulting   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

climate mitigation; ecosystem services; forest landscape restoration; international environmental policy; land use; nonmarket valuation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 85014055313     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12512     Document Type: Article

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