Legitimacy of forest rights: The underpinnings of the forest tenure reform in the protected areas of petén, Guatemala

Conservation and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 136-150

  Monterroso, Iliana ^a,b   Barry, Deborah ^a  

^a Rights and Resources Initiative   (United States)

^b FLACSO Guatemala   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

community forest concessions; forest tenure reform; Guatemala; legitimacy; Pet n; rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863742444     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.97486     Document Type: Article

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