Indigenous land tenure insecurity fosters illegal logging in Nicaragua

International Forestry Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 850-864

  Finley Brook, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralised policy terrain; Illegal logging; Indigenous peoples; Land tenure; Multiscale resolutions

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DECENTRALIZATION; DISPUTE RESOLUTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND TENURE; LOGGING (TIMBER); NEGOTIATION PROCESS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; REMEDIATION; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NICARAGUA;

EID: 67549137564     PISSN: 14655489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1505/ifor.9.4.850     Document Type: Article

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