Estimating the demand for non-timber forest products among rural communities: A case study from the Sinharaja Rain Forest region, Sri Lanka

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-22

  Gopalakrishnan, Chennat ^a   Wickramasinghe, W A R ^b   Gunatilake, H M ^b   Illukpitiya, Prabodh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Labor allocation; Opportunity cost; Price elasticity; Quantity index; Shadow price

Indexed keywords

FOREST RESOURCE; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; RURAL ECONOMY; TEA;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SABARAGAMUWA; SINHARAJA FOREST RESERVE; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA; WORLD;

EID: 19944388325     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-004-3482-6     Document Type: Article

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