Land tenure in the U.S.: Power, gender, and consequences for conservation decision making

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 549-560

  Petrzelka, Peggy ^a   Marquart Pyatt, Sandra ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absentee landowners; Conservation; Gender; Great Lakes Basin; Land tenure; Women farmland owners

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555195672     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-011-9307-0     Document Type: Article

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