Negotiating post-socialist property and state: Struggles over forests in Albania and Romania

Development and Change

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 171-193

  Sikor, Thomas ^a   Stahl, Johannes ^b   Dorondel, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Francisc I Rainer Institute of Anthropology   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL POLITICS; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SOCIALISM;

ALBANIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 65449175328     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2009.01510.x     Document Type: Article

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