Interactions of formal and informal knowledge systems in village-based tree management in central India

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 355-363

  Brodt, Sonja B ^a  

^a EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Environmental cognition; Ethnobotany; Indigenous knowledge; Madhya Pradesh

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001027609     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007537809389     Document Type: Article

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