Top-down or bottom-up?. Decentralization, natural resource management, and usufruct rights in the forests and wetlands of western Uganda

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 815-826

  Hartter, Joel ^a   Ryan, Sadie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

De facto; De jure; Forest fragments; Land tenure; Natural resources; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; DECENTRALIZATION; FOREST; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND TENURE; LAND USE PLANNING; NATURAL RESOURCE; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; WETLAND;

UGANDA;

EID: 77649335933     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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