"Re-claiming" land in the Gambia: Gendered property rights and environmental intervention

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 487-508

  Schroeder, Richard A ^a,b  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Environmental intervention; Gender; Land reclamation; Political ecology; Resource tenure

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GENDER ROLE; LAND RECLAMATION; POLITICAL ECOLOGY; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RURAL PLANNING;

GAMBIA;

EID: 0031411365     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8306.00065     Document Type: Article

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