A watershed conservation success story in Nepal: Land use changes over 30 years

Waterlines

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-46

  Fleming, Bill ^a   Puleston Fleming, Jeanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Community forestry; Erosion plots; Evaluation; Land use; Social fencing; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; DEFORESTATION; EROSION RATE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; OVERGRAZING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; WATERSHED;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 61349124347     PISSN: 02628104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3362/1756-3488.2009.004     Document Type: Article

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