Personal preferences and intensification of land use: Their impact on southern Cameroonian slash-and-burn agroforestry systems

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-67

  Brown, Douglas R ^a  

^a Environment and Natural Resource Management   (Canada)

Author keywords

Household modelling; Intensification; Preferences; Shifting cultivation; Spatiotemporal modelling; Sustainable forest use

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; FARMERS ATTITUDE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LAND TYPE; LAND USE; LANDOWNER; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOIL FERTILITY;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33748902575     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-006-0003-9     Document Type: Article

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