Advancing equity in community forestry: Recognition of the poor matters

International Forestry Review

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 370-382

  Sunam, R K ^a   McCarthy, J F ^b  

^a ForestAction   (Nepal)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community forestry; equity; Nepal; participation; recognition

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; FORESTRY PRACTICE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH;

NEPAL;

EID: 78650456019     PISSN: 14655489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1505/ifor.12.4.370     Document Type: Article

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