Drawbacks of decentralized natural resource management: Experience from Chilimo Participatory Forest Management project, Ethiopia

Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 30-36

  Mohammed, Abrar Juhar ^a   Inoue, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CBNRM; Decentralization; Ethiopia

Indexed keywords

CBNRM; CENTRAL GOVERNMENT; DECENTRALIZATION; ETHIOPIA; HIGH COSTS; LOCAL AUTHORITIES; LOCAL PEOPLE; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; NEGATIVE IMPACTS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

DECENTRALIZATION; FOREST RESOURCE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NATURAL RESOURCE; POLARIZATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84855915004     PISSN: 13416979     EISSN: 16107403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10310-011-0270-9     Document Type: Article

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