Defining degradation: the impacts of swidden on forests in northern Thailand

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-149

  Schmidt Vogt, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST DEGRADATION; SWIDDEN AGRICULTURE; VEGETATIVE CHANGE;

THAILAND;

EID: 0031874420     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3673969     Document Type: Article

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