Community-based forest management and its role in improving forest conditions in Nepal

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 377-388

  Gurung, Anup ^a   Bista, Rajesh ^b   Karki, Rahul ^b   Shrestha, Shanti ^c   Uprety, Dharam ^d   Oh, Sang Eun ^a  

^a Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^b ForestAction   (Nepal)

^c TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^d Multi stakeholder Forestry Program   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Benefit sharing; Common pool resources; Forest products; Livelihood; Local governance

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST PRODUCT; FORESTRY PRACTICE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINABILITY;

NEPAL;

EID: 84884531242     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-012-9217-z     Document Type: Article

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