Whose involvement? - Can hierarchical valuation scheme intercede for participatory methods for evaluating secondary forest resource use?

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 265-283

  Dovie, Delali B K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Hierarchical valuation scheme; Inventories; Participatory rural appraisal; Principal component analysis; Secondary forest resources

Indexed keywords

FOREST RESOURCES;

ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0141460733     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9341(02)00066-7     Document Type: Article

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