Local farmers’ place-based forest benefits and government interventions behind land and forest cover transitions in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Journal of Land Use Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 150-173

  Käyhkö, Niina ^a   Fagerholm, Nora ^a   J Mzee, Abbas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Zanzibar University   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

GIS; land cover change; landscape services; local scale; participation; tropical forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926244731     PISSN: 1747423X     EISSN: 17474248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2013.858784     Document Type: Article

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