A challenge for environmental governance: Institutional change in a traditional common-property forest system

Policy Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-48

  Hayes, Tanya M ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agricultural expansion; Forest policy; Frontier forest; Indigenous management; Latin America

Indexed keywords

COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND RIGHTS;

HONDURAS; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 76549109172     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-009-9083-5     Document Type: Article

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