Co-management in community forestry: How the partial devolution of management rights creates challenges for forest communities

Conservation and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 91-102

  Cronkleton, Peter ^a   Pulhin, Juan M ^b   Saigal, Sushil ^c  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

co management; community forestry; property rights; tenure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863753086     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.97481     Document Type: Article

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