National Consumption and Global Trade Impacts on Biodiversity

World Development

Volumn 121, Issue , 2019, Pages 178-187

  Chaudhary, Abhishek ^a   Brooks, Thomas M ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b International Union for Conservation of Nature   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

biodiversity; conservation; consumption; global trade; land use; sustainability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GLOBAL TRADE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LAND USE; PARAMETERIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 85033710502     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.10.012     Document Type: Article

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