Community forestry in the hills of Nepal: Determinants of user participation in forest management

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 30, Issue , 2013, Pages 6-13

  Chhetri, Bir Bahadur Khanal ^a   Johnsen, Fred Hakon ^b   Konoshima, Masashi ^c   Yoshimoto, Atsushi ^d  

^a Institute of Forestry   (Nepal)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caste; Decision making; Forest user group; Household; Nepal

Indexed keywords

CASTE; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; HOUSEHOLD; NEPAL; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; USER GROUPS;

DECISION MAKING; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING; FORESTS; NATURAL RESOURCES; NEPAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877103010     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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