Conflicts as enhancers or barriers to the management of privately owned common land: A method to analyze the role of conflicts on a regional basis

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 617-627

  Gomez Vazquez I ^a   Alvarez Alvarez P ^b   Marey Perez M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Collective private ownership; Communal management; Conflict; Local press; Statistical and spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAND USE; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CONFLICT; DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS; PRIVATE OWNERSHIPS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77956583562     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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