Impacts of participatory forestry on livelihoods of ethnic people: Experience from Bangladesh

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1093-1107

  Tapan, Kumar Nath ^a   Inoue, Makoto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forest; Integrated plan; Livelihood capital; Participation

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; ETHNIC GROUP; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INCOME; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; VILLAGE;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 77957774199     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920802653521     Document Type: Article

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