Elite capture risk and mitigation in decentralized forest governance regimes

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 265-276

  Persha, Lauren ^a   Andersson, Krister ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Forests; Governance; Inequality; Institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894329722     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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