Herders response to acute land pressure under changing property rights: Some insights from Kajiado District, Kenya

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-85

  Kabubo Mariara, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

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EID: 13844294326     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X04001512     Document Type: Article

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