'Something else to burn': Forest squatters, conservationists, and the state in modern Tanzania

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 609-640

  Sunseri, Thaddeus ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHARCOAL; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646596936     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X05001242     Document Type: Article

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