Local vs official criteria and indicators for evaluating community forest management

Forestry

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 183-192

  Pokharel, Ridish K ^a   Larsen, Helle O ^b  

^a TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^b DANISH FOREST LANDSCAPE RES INST   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34548457210     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpm005     Document Type: Article

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