Primitive ideas: Protected area buffer zones and the politics of land in Africa

Development and Change

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 559-582

  Neumann, Roderick P ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND TENURE; PROTECTED AREA; RURAL PLANNING;

AFRICA;

EID: 0031428084     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00054     Document Type: Article

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