Going to scale with Participatory Forest Management: Early lessons from Tanzania

International Forestry Review

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-100

  Blomley, T ^a   Ramadhani, H ^b  

^a Forestry and Beekeeping Division   (Tanzania)

^b Forest and Beekeeping Division   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Decentralization and local governments; Participatory Forest Management; Scaling up; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

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

EID: 33751531955     PISSN: 14655489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1505/ifor.8.1.93     Document Type: Article

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