Vietnamese uplands: Environmental and socio-economic perspective of forest land allocation and deforestation process

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-142

  Gomiero, Tiziano ^a,c   Pettenella, Davide ^a   Trieu, Giang Phan ^b,d   Paoletti, Maurizio G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Viet Nam)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development policy; Environment management; Ethnic minorities; Forest land allocation; Slash and burn; Uplands; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944511296     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011443731674     Document Type: Article

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