Hunting for the Benefits of Joint Forest Management in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot: Effects on Bushmeat Hunters and Wildlife in the Udzungwa Mountains

World Development

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1224-1239

  Nielsen, Martin Reinhardt ^a   Treue, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hotspot; Bushmeat hunting; Counterfactual evaluation; Participatory forest management; Tanzania; Temporal comparison

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BUSHMEAT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HUNTING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

TANZANIA; UDZUNGWA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84860320424     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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