Tenure alone is not sufficient: monitoring is essential

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 175-199

  Ostrom, Elinor ^a   Nagendra, Harini ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Institutions; Monitoring; Property rights; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919793790     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03353956     Document Type: Article

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