Forest-based settlement project and its impacts on community livelihood in the chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh

International Forestry Review

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 394-407

  Nath, T K ^a,b   Inoue, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

livelihood strategies; rubber plantations; settlement; Shifting cultivation; social capital

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY PRACTICE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOCIAL CAPITAL; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

BANGLADESH; CHITTAGONG [BANGLADESH]; CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS;

EID: 77954661882     PISSN: 14655489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1505/ifor.11.3.394     Document Type: Article

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