Use and misuse of forest income by rural communities in cameroon

Forests Trees and Livelihoods

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 291-304

  Lescuyer, Guillaume ^a   Mbarga, Hubert Ngoumou ^a   Logo, Patrice Bigombe ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b CERAD   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Forestry fees; Rural community management capability; Rural development; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARD OF LIVING; TROPICAL FOREST;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 55649103927     PISSN: 14728028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14728028.2008.9752637     Document Type: Article

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