Technical and institutional capacity in local organisations to manage decentralised forest resources in Uganda

Southern African Forestry Journal

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-78

  Turyahabwe, Nelson ^a   Geldenhuys, C J ^b   Watts, S ^b   Banana, A Y ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Capacity; Decentralisation; Forest resources; Local organisations; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846899711     PISSN: 10295925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/10295920609505263     Document Type: Article

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