Open Access, Open Systems: Pastoral Management of Common-Pool Resources in the Chad Basin

Human Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 351-365

  Moritz, Mark ^a   Scholte, Paul ^b   Hamilton, Ian M ^a   Kari, Saïdou ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b not available   (Netherlands)

^c The Centre d'Appui a la Recherche et au Pastoralisme (CARPA)   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Chad Basin; Common pool resources; Open access; Pastoral systems

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; OVERGRAZING; PASTORALISM; PLANNING THEORY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CAMEROON; CHAD BASIN; LOGONE RIVER;

EID: 84878784207     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9550-z     Document Type: Article

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