Breaking the rings of forest corruption: Steps towards better forest governance

Forests Trees and Livelihoods

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-131

  Bulkan, Janette ^a   Palmer, John ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Forest Management Trust   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; HARVESTING; REGULATORY APPROACH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SELECTIVE LOGGING; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER TRADE;

GUYANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 49249105645     PISSN: 14728028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14728028.2008.9752624     Document Type: Article

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