Social and cultural determinants of collective management of community forest in Nepal

Journal of Forest Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 261-274

  Maskey, Vishakha ^a   Gebremedhin, Tesfa G ^a   Dalton, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caste system; Common property; Community forestry; Level of participation; Socio economic status; User group

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CASTE SYSTEM; COMMON PROPERTY; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; USER GROUP;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC FACTORS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 30944461542     PISSN: 11046899     EISSN: 16181530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfe.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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