Attitudes of local people towards collective action for forest management: The case of participatory forest management in Dodola area in the Bale Mountains, Southern Ethiopia

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 245-265

  Tesfaye, Yemiru ^a   Roos, Anders ^a   Bohlin, Folke ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Co management; Collective action; Perceptions; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; SEEDLING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STATE ROLE; SURVIVAL; TREE PLANTING;

BALE MOUNTAINS; ETHIOPIA;

EID: 83555178464     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0181-2     Document Type: Article

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