Monetary valuation of livelihoods for understanding the composition and complexity of rural households

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-103

  Dovie, Delali B K ^a   Witkowski, E T F ^a   Shackleton, Charlie M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Direct use value; Gender; Household composition; Land based resources; Livelihood options; Multiple resource use; Rural poor; South Africa; Woodland resources

Indexed keywords

ARIDA;

EID: 23844487441     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-004-7233-0     Document Type: Article

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