Resilience of community forestry under conditions of armed conflict in Nepal

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-209

  Karna, Birendra K ^a   Shivakoti, Ganesh P ^a   Webb, Edward L ^b  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

armed conflict; community forestry; forest condition; institutional embeddedness; local institutions

Indexed keywords

ARMED CONFLICT; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; EMBEDDEDNESS; FOREST CONDITIONS; LOCAL INSTITUTIONS;

ECOLOGY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

ARMED FORCES; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MOUNTAIN REGION; RECIPROCITY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

DENSITY; ECOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; FORESTS; NEPAL; RESILIENCE;

NEPAL;

EID: 77957279705     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892910000263     Document Type: Article

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