Barriers beyond the partners: Bureaucratic and political constraints to implementing joint forest management in Tamil Nadu, India

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 465-479

  Matta, Jagannadha Rao ^a   Kerr, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization and development; Participatory forest management; Political functionaries; Public governance; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 34848847900     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-006-9032-9     Document Type: Article

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