Can communities plan, grow and sustainably harvest from forests?

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 59-67

  Ghate, Rucha ^a   Ghate, Suresh ^b   Ostrom, Elinor ^c  

^a SHODH   (India)

^b RTM NAGPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Alfred Nobel ^*  (Sweden)

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EID: 84875425260     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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