The effectiveness of economic incentives for sustaining community based natural resource management

Land Use Policy

Volumn 31, Issue , 2013, Pages 441-449

  Suich, Helen ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community based natural resource management; Equity; Incentives; Mozambique; Namibia; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

MOZAMBIQUE; NAMIBIA;

EID: 84871924145     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.08.008     Document Type: Article

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