Stories and maps, images and archives: Multimethod approach to the political ecology of native property rights and natural resource management in Sabah, Malaysia

Environmental Management

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-81

  Doolittle, Amity A ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Inductive reasoning; Multimethod approach; Native customary land tenure; Political ecology; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

GROUNDED THEORY; INDUCTIVE REASONING; LAND TENURE; MULTI-METHOD APPROACH; POLITICAL ECOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

COMPLEXATION; ECOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

RESEARCH;

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LAND TENURE; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RESEARCH WORK; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CASE STUDY; COMMUNITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; LAND USE; MALAYSIA; MULTIMETHOD STUDY; ORIENTATION; POLITICAL ECOLOGY; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHIVES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALAYSIA; POLITICS;

EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH;

EID: 77649192934     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9144-0     Document Type: Review

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