Reframing Community Forestry to Manage the Forest-Farm Interface

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-13

  Cronkleton, Peter ^a,e   Larson, Anne M ^a   Feintrenie, Laurène ^b   Garcia, Claude ^a,b,c   Levang, Patrice ^a,d  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

Author keywords

Community forestry; Domestic forests; Forest property rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874808448     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-012-9229-8     Document Type: Editorial

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