Evaluating the effects of common-pool resource institutions and market forces on species richness and forest cover in Ecuadorian indigenous Kichwa communities

Conservation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 107-115

  Oldekop, Johan A ^a   Bebbington, Anthony J ^a,b   Hennermann, Karl ^a   Mcmorrow, Julia ^a   Springate, David A ^a   Torres, Bolier ^c   Truelove, Nathan K ^a   Tysklind, Niklas ^d   Villamarín, Santiago ^e   Preziosi, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GESOREN Programme GIZ Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e MUSEO ECUATORIANO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Common property; Community; Conservation; Institutions; Markets; Protected area

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876142646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00297.x     Document Type: Article

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