Enabling Conditions for Successful Community Forest Enterprises

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 145-163

  Macqueen, Duncan ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business capacity; Commercial tenure; Enterprise isolation; Social organisation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; COMPETITIVENESS; FORESTRY POLICY; LAND RIGHTS; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

BRAZIL; CHINA; ETHIOPIA; GHANA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; LAOS; MOZAMBIQUE; NEPAL;

EID: 84874802680     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-011-9193-8     Document Type: Article

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