The epistemology of sustainable resource use: Managing forest products, swiddens, and high-yielding variety crops

Human Organization

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 91-101

  Dove, Michael R ^a   Kammen, Daniel M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Exchange; HYV green revolution agriculture; Borneo; Indonesia; Java; Sustainable resource use; Swidden agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; DEVELOPING REGION; ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS; HIGH YIELDING VARIETY; MORAL ECOLOGY; RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE USE; SWIDDEN AGRICULTURE;

ASIA, (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 0031459504     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.56.1.l784408q35174516     Document Type: Article

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