Shifting cultivation and deforestation in tropical Africa: Critical reflections

Development and Change

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 599-626

  Ickowitz, Amy ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; SHIFTING CULTIVATION;

AFRICA;

EID: 33745205065     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-155X.2006.00492.x     Document Type: Article

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