Can properties of labor-exchange networks explain the resilience of swidden agriculture?

Ecology and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Downey, Sean S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive cycle; Common property resource management; Labor exchange; Maya; Panarchy; Q'eqchi' resilience; Social network analysis; Swidden

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION GROWTH; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; VILLAGE;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 78651496207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-03686-150415     Document Type: Article

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