Seeing green in Mali's woods: Colonial legacy, forest use, and local control

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 504-526

  Becker, Laurence C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Mali; Natural resource management; Political ecology; Savanna forest

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL LEGACY; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DECENTRALIZATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS;

MALI;

EID: 0035470465     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00256     Document Type: Article

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