Forest Fights and Forest Rights: Working Forests as a Strategy for Reducing Tensions in New York State

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1205-1220

  Neugarten, Rachel A ^a   Wolf, Steven A ^a,b   Stedman, Richard C ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

environmental governance; forest dependent communities; public private partnership; the nature conservancy; working forest

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAND USE; NATURE CONSERVATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867535025     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2012.669819     Document Type: Article

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