Nepal's conservation policy options for commercial medicinal plant harvesting: Stakeholder views

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Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 435-441

  Larsen, Helle Overgaard ^a,c   Smith, Patrick Delinde ^b   Olsen, Carsten Smith ^c,d,e  

^a Institute of Forestry   (Nepal)

^b UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c DANISH FOREST LANDSCAPE RES INST   (Denmark)

^d IUCN Medicinal Plant Specialist Group   (Denmark)

^e IUFRO Working Group on Medicinal Forest Products   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Community forestry; Forest policy; Himalaya; Nepal; Non timber forest products; Participation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; CONSERVATION; FORESTRY POLICY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 29144497160     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605305001079     Document Type: Article

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