Can stumps tell what people want: Pattern and preference of informal wood extraction in an urban forest of Nairobi, Kenya

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3047-3054

  Furukawa, Takuya ^a   Fujiwara, Kazue ^b   Kiboi, Samuel K ^c   Mutiso, Patrick B Chalo ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Fuelwood use; Illegal cutting; Patrolling; Resource preference

Indexed keywords

CUTTING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE USE; STEM; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; URBAN FORESTRY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOOD;

KENYA; NAIROBI [KENYA];

BRACHYLAENA HUILLENSIS;

EID: 83555165241     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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