Using markets to leverage investment in forest and landscape restoration in the tropics

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 85, Issue , 2017, Pages 103-113

  Brancalion, Pedro H S ^a   Lamb, David ^b,c   Ceccon, Eliane ^d   Boucher, Doug ^e   Herbohn, John ^c   Strassburg, Bernardo ^f,g   Edwards, David P ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS   (United States)

^f INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY   (Brazil)

^g PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological economics; Ecosystem services; Forest governance; Large scale restoration; Tropical forest restoration; Tropical reforestation; Wood production

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND RECLAMATION; LAND USE; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; TROPICS;

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FOREST GOVERNANCE; TROPICAL FOREST; WOOD PRODUCTION;

INVESTMENTS;

ECOLOGY; FORESTS; INVESTMENT; LAND USE; MARKET RESEARCH; RESTORATION; TROPICS;

EID: 85029713885     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2017.08.009     Document Type: Review

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