The politics of community participation in natural resource management: Lessons from community forestry in Nepal

Australian Forestry

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-146

  Shrestha, Krishna K ^a   McManus, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Administration; Community forestry; Conservation; Development programmes; Forest policy; Forest products; Human ecology; Nepal; Political power; Production

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTION; TIMBER;

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES; FOREST POLICY; FOREST PRODUCTS; HUMAN ECOLOGY; NEPAL; POLITICAL POWER;

FORESTRY;

AGRICULTURE; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; NEPAL;

EID: 47549083283     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2008.10676280     Document Type: Article

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