Common and privatized: Conditions for wise management of matsutake mushrooms in Northwest Yunnan Province, China

Ecology and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Yang, Xuefei ^a   Wilkes, Andreas ^b   Yang, Yongping ^a   Xu, Jianchu ^a,b   Geslani, Cheryl S ^c   Yang, Xueqing ^a   Gao, Feng ^a   Yang, Jiankun ^a   Robinson, Brian ^d  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b China Program   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Common pool resource; Management strategies; Matsutake mushroom; Open access; Privatization; Yunnan province

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; FIELDWORK; INNOVATION; MUSHROOM; PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC ACCESS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; TENURE SYSTEM;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; TRICHOLOMA MATSUTAKE;

EID: 73849115273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-03129-140230     Document Type: Article

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