Changing governance of the world's forests

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5882, 2008, Pages 1460-1462

  Agrawal, Arun ^a   Chhatre, Ashwini ^b   Hardin, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL;

BIOFUEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MARKET; OWNERSHIP; TEMPERATE FOREST; TIMBER CERTIFICATION;

ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; DECENTRALIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; LOGGING; MARKET; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFIT; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER; FORESTRY; INDUSTRY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TREE; WOOD;

COMMERCE; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; FORESTRY; GOVERNMENT; INDUSTRY; OWNERSHIP; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 45849115508     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155369     Document Type: Short Survey

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23. The authors thank B. Adhikari, K. Andersson, D. Brown, C. Gibson, J. McAlpine, E. Ostrom, J. Ribot, and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of the paper and R. Kornak, J. Miller, and A. Beata for help in preparing the maps. We gratefully acknowledge support from the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and two NSF grants numbered HSD-0527138 and CNH-0709545.