Social contracts and community forestry: How can we design forest policies and tenure arrangements to generate local benefits?

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 903-913

  Benner, Jordan ^a   Lertzman, Ken ^a   Pinkerton, Evelyn W ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Community based forest management; Fibre flow analysis; Forest ownership; Mixed methods

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; TIMBER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMUNITY-BASED FOREST MANAGEMENTS; FLOW ANALYSIS; FOREST OWNERSHIP; MIXED METHOD;

FORESTRY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; OWNERSHIP; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TENURE RELATIONS; TIMBER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; PRIVATE OWNERSHIP;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84904974619     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2013-0405     Document Type: Article

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