Forest carbon projects in the Ukrainian carpathians: An assessment of potential community impacts and benefits

Annals of Forest Research

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 3-17

  Egan, Amanda R ^a   Keeton, William S ^a   Danks, Cecilia M ^a   Soloviy, Ihor ^b   Zia, Asim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UKRAINIAN NATIONAL FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Community participation; Conservation; Equity; Livelihoods; Markets; Policy; REDD+; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021776520     PISSN: 18448135     EISSN: 20652445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15287/afr.2016.718     Document Type: Article

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