Balancing ecosystem services and disservices: Smallholder farmers' use and management of forest and trees in an agricultural landscape in southwestern Ethiopia

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ango, Tola Gemechu ^a   Börjeson, Lowe ^a   Senbeta, Feyera ^b   Hylander, Kristoffer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Biodiversity; Ecosystem services and disservices; Ethiopia; Farmer practices; Forest; Gera; Trees

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMALLHOLDER;

ETHIOPIA;

MAMMALIA; PAPIO; SUIDAE;

EID: 84897525507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-06279-190130     Document Type: Article

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