Representing crisis: The theory of Himalayan environmental degradation and the project of development in post-rana Nepal

Development and Change

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-69

  Guthman, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE; ECKHOLM,E.; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HISTORIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH; LITERATURE REVIEW; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; POPULATION GROWTH; POWER RELATIONS; SOIL EROSION; UPLAND DEFORESTATION;

NEPAL, HIMALAYAS;

EID: 0030886037     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00034     Document Type: Article

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