Community-based forestry in Mexico: Can it reverse processes of degradation?

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 365-381

  Klooster, D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co management; Common property; Community based Conservation; Corruption; Forest degradation; Forestry; Mexico; Political ecology

Indexed keywords

COMANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; LOCAL PARTICIPATION;

MEXICO;

EID: 0032704726     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199907/08)10:4<365::AID-LDR360>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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