Conservation and subsistence in small-scale societies

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 29, Issue , 2000, Pages 493-524

  Smith, Eric Alden ^a   Wishnie, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Collective action; Common property resources; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002088489     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.493     Document Type: Article

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