Does community-based management improve natural resource condition? Evidence from the forests in Nepal

Land Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-131

  Tachibana, Towa ^a   Adhikari, Sunit ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST FIRE; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCE; REGENERATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; MIDDLE HILLS; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 66549098759     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.85.1.107     Document Type: Article

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