Paper forests: Imagining and deploying exogenous ecologies in arid India

Geoforum

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-86

  Robbins, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid lands; Deforestation; India; Political ecology; Poststructuralism; Rajasthan

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ARID AREA; ARID ENVIRONMENT; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST POLICY; LAND DEGRADATION; LANDCOVER CHANGE; POLITICAL ECOLOGY;

INDIA, RAJASTHAN;

EID: 0031824563     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-7185(97)00026-2     Document Type: Article

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