Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America

Ecology and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mwangi, Esther ^a   Meinzen Dick, Ruth ^b   Sun, Yan ^b  

^a Center for International Forestry Research

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest management; Gender; Sustainability; User groups

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; GENDER ISSUE; MIXED FOREST; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; WOMENS STATUS;

BOLIVIA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UGANDA;

EID: 79954456786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-03873-160117     Document Type: Article

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