Community-based forest enterprises in Nepal: An analysis of their role in increasing income benefits to the poor

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 447-462

  Pandit, Bishnu Hari ^a   Albano, Adrian ^b   Kumar, Chetan ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community forestry; Forest user groups; Leasehold forestry; Non timber forest products

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; TENURE SYSTEM;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70350705958     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-009-9094-2     Document Type: Article

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