Ensuring a future for collective forestry in China's southwest: Adding human and social capital to policy reforms

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-385

  Weyerhaeuser, Horst ^a   Kahrl, Fredrich ^a   Yufang, Su ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Community forestry; Governance; Social capital; Southwest China

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOUTHWEST CHINA;

DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENTS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING; FORESTS; INVESTMENT;

EID: 33646268807     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2005.08.007     Document Type: Article

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