Do women-only approaches to natural resource management help women? The case of community forestry in Nepal

Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 127-149

  Buchy, Marlene ^a   Rai, Bimala ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849771436     Document Type: Chapter

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