The impact of policy and institutional environment on costs and benefits of sustainable agricultural land uses: The case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

Environmental Management

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 272-283

  Rasul, Golam ^a   Thapa, Gopal B ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

^b ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Agricultural land use; Bangladesh; Benefit analysis; Chittagong Hill Tracts; Cost; Market failure; Policy and institutional environment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HORTICULTURE;

CROPS; DEGRADATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EROSION; LAND USE;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; CASH CROPPING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HORTICULTURE; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE; MARKET CONDITIONS; MOUNTAIN REGION; POLICY ANALYSIS; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; TIMBER;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROECOSYSTEM; AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HORTICULTURE; LAND USE; PLANTATION; POLICY; SOIL EROSION; TILLAGE; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; OWNERSHIP; POLICY MAKING; WATER SUPPLY;

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

EID: 34547127398     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0083-8     Document Type: Article

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