Increasing Tree Cover in Degrading Landscapes: 'Integration' and 'Intensification' of Smallholder Forest Culture in the Alutilla Valley, Matiranga, Bangladesh

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 237-249

  Rahman, Syed Ajijur ^a,b,c   Rahman, Md Faizar ^d   Sunderland, Terry ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Deforestation; Forest management; Livelihoods; Shifting cultivation

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SMALLHOLDER;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84901943274     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-013-9251-5     Document Type: Article

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