On the road through the Bolivian Amazon: A multi-level land governance analysis of deforestation

Land Use Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 137-146

  Bottazzi, Patrick ^a   Dao, Hy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Andean migrants; Bolivian Amazon; Deforestation; Indigenous people; Land governance; Property rights

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND RIGHTS; LAND USE; PROPERTY RIGHTS; REMOTE SENSING; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA;

EID: 84859390391     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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