Policy and demographic factors shape deforestation patterns and socio-ecological processes in southwest Ethiopian coffee agroecosystems

Applied Geography

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 149-159

  Tadesse, Getachew ^a   Zavaleta, Erika ^a   Shennan, Carol ^a   FitzSimmons, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Drivers; Land use change; Resettlement; Socio ecological feedbacks

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; COFFEE; DEFORESTATION; LAND TENURE; LAND USE CHANGE; RESETTLEMENT POLICY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; POLICY APPROACH;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84906486033     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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