Towards adaptive governance of common-pool mountainous agropastoral systems

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1448-1471

  Baumgärtner, Johann ^a,b   Tikubet, Getachew ^c   Gilioli, Gianni ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Centre for the Analysis of Sustainable Agricultural Systems (CASAS)   (United States)

^c Yeha Natural Resource Management Institute for Eastern Africa   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive governance; Bioeconomic models; Ecological and social capital; Ecosystem services; Panarchy; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855729497     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2061448     Document Type: Article

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