Livelihood Resilience and Adaptive Capacity: Tracing Changes in Household Access to Capital in Central Vietnam

World Development

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 352-362

  Thulstrup, Andreas Waaben ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Asia; Livelihoods; Reforestation; Resilience; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CAPITAL; REFORESTATION; RURAL AREA; RURAL ECONOMY;

VIET NAM;

EID: 84936115289     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.05.019     Document Type: Article

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