Forest commons and local enforcement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 13286-13291

  Chhatre, Ashwini ^a   Agrawal, Arun ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Forest regeneration; Governance; Local institutions; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; FOREST; LAW ENFORCEMENT; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ECOLOGY; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 51649123757     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803399105     Document Type: Article

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