Mapping mountain diversity: Ethnic minorities and land use land cover change in Vietnam's borderlands

Land Use Policy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 484-497

  Trincsi, Kate ^a   Pham, Thi Thanh Hiên ^b   Turner, Sarah ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity; Ethnic minorities; Land use land cover change; Livelihoods, borderlands; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; ETHNIC MINORITY; FOREST CANOPY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SMALLHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN GROWTH; AGROECOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

LAO CAI; VIET NAM;

EID: 84904741010     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.06.022     Document Type: Article

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