Measurement and evaluation of livelihood assets in sustainable forest commons governance

Land Use Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 908-914

  Chena, Haiyun ^a   Zhu, Ting ^a   Krotta, Max ^a   Calvo, José F ^b   Ganesh, Shivakoti P ^c   Makot, Inoue ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Capital; Community participation; Forest resources; Governance; Livelihood assets; Powerful stakeholders

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CAPACITY BUILDING; FOREST RESOURCE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOCIAL CAPITAL; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84864245111     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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