The land managers who have lost control of their land use: Implications for sustainability

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-24

  Lambin, Eric F ^a   Geist, Helmut J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Causes; Deforestation; Driving forces; Endogenous; Exogenous; Global local interplay; Globalisation; Land use change; Scales; Sustainability; Tropics

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0141685916     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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