Community-Based Forest Management: What Scope for Conservation and Livelihood Co-Benefits? Experience from the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 777-797

  Rantala, Salla ^a   Bullock, Renee ^b   Mbegu, Mwilla A ^c   German, Laura A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Tanzania Forest Conservation Group   (Tanzania)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

community; forest rights; livelihoods; REDD; sustainability; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; FOREST RIGHTS; LIVELIHOODS; REDD; TANZANIA;

RURAL AREAS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; VILLAGE;

COSTS; FORESTRY; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; TANZANIA;

TANGA [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA; USAMBARA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84870972628     PISSN: 10549811     EISSN: 1540756X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10549811.2012.725155     Document Type: Article

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