Nesting local forestry initiatives: Revisiting community forest management in a REDD+ world

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 545-553

  Hayes, Tanya ^a   Persha, Lauren ^b  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Central America; Decentralization; Forest conservation; Institutional analysis; Joint forest management; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICA; DECENTRALIZATION; FOREST CONSERVATION; INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS; JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENTS; TANZANIA;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; TIMBER;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AGRICULTURE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTS; RESEARCH; TANZANIA;

EID: 77957804210     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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