Political ecology of the degradation of forest commons in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-163

  Rasul, Golam ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Chittagong Hill Tracts; Forest degradation; Mountains; South Asia; State policies; Tribal communities

Indexed keywords

CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF THE LAND; FOREST DEGRADATION; FOREST RESOURCES; RESERVE FORESTS;

CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; RUBBER PLANTATIONS;

FORESTRY;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MONTANE FOREST; PRIVATIZATION; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SHIFTING CULTIVATION;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; DEFORESTATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HORTICULTURE; POLITICS; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE;

CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; CHITTAGONG [BANGLADESH]; EURASIA; KARNAPHULI RESERVOIR; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34447572809     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892907003888     Document Type: Article

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