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A ‘middle way’ for Indonesian fires

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Planetary health solutions that protect the environment and promote development have been hard to find. Eco-certification of palm oil that restricts fires also reduces local poverty in Indonesia, but only in communities integrated into the market.

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  1. Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

  2. Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Erin Sills

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Pattanayak, S.K., Sills, E. A ‘middle way’ for Indonesian fires. Nat Sustain 4, 83–84 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00634-x

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