Local level criteria and indicator frameworks: A tool used to assess aboriginal forest ecosystem values

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2024-2037

  Adam, M C ^a   Kneeshaw, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Criteria and indicators; Forest conditions; Forest values; Forestry; Integration

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CRITERIA AND INDICATORS; FOREST CONDITIONS; FOREST VALUES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CULTURAL TRADITION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 41949086907     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.12.051     Document Type: Review

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