Fire supported forest utilisation of a degraded dry forest as a means of sustainable local forest management in Tamil Nadu/South India

Land Use Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-71

  Schmerbeck, Joachim ^a   Seeland, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Degraded dry forests; Intentional forest fires; Sustainable forest management; Tamil Nadu; Traditional fire management

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DRY FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 33748782851     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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