Expanding Women's Choices through Employment? Community-Based Natural Resource Management and Women's Empowerment in Kwandu Conservancy, Namibia

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1024-1039

  Khumalo, Kathryn E ^a   Freimund, Wayne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caprivi; conservation benefits; development; employment; empowerment; gender; income

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; EMPOWERMENT; GENDER RELATIONS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR RELATIONS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WOMENS STATUS;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 84907592552     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2014.905893     Document Type: Article

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