Community Forestry and Forest Conservation: Friends or Strangers?

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-98

  Casse, Thorkil ^a   Milhøj, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Forest conservation; Local management of forest; Meta study

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION;

INDIA; NEPAL;

EID: 79953081021     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.566     Document Type: Article

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