Policies to promote household based plantation forestry and their impacts on livelihoods and the environment: Cases from Ethiopia, China, Vietnam and Sweden

International Forestry Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 98-111

  Sandewall, M ^a   Kassa, H ^b   Wu, S ^c   Khoa, P V ^d   He, Y ^c   Ohlsson, B ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Centre for International Forestry Research Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^d VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Change assessment; household based forestry; land use; multi scale approach; trends

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST RESOURCE; FORESTRY POLICY; LAND USE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; ETHIOPIA; SWEDEN; VIET NAM;

EID: 84927563435     PISSN: 14655489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1505/146554815814725059     Document Type: Article

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