Company-community logging contracts in Amazonian settlements: Impacts on livelihoods and NTFP harvests

Ecology and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Menton, Mary C S ^a   Merry, Frank D ^b   Lawrence, Anna ^c   Brown, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c FORESTRY COMMISSION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazonian frontier; Non timber forest products; Rural livelihoods; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRONTIER REGION; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISAL; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL SOCIETY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER HARVESTING; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 69149096151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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