Toward sustainable livelihoods after war: Reconstituting rural land tenure systems

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-115

  Unruh, Jon D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

International development; Land rights; Postwar land tenure; Recovery; Sustainable livelihoods framework

Indexed keywords

LABOR RELATIONS; LAND RIGHTS; LAND TENURE; POST-WAR; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL PLANNING; RURAL POLICY; SMALLHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 43049090147     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2008.00184.x     Document Type: Article

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