Analysing the land uses of forest-dwelling indigenous people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 663-676

  Kibria, Abu Saleh Md Golam ^a   Inoue, Makoto ^a   Nath, Tapan Kumar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Indigenous people; Land uses; Sustainability; Unclassed state forest

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGROFORESTRY; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; CULTIVATION; FRUIT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND USE PLANNING; MARGINALIZATION; ORCHARD; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

BANGLADESH; CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS; CHITTAGONG [BANGLADESH];

EID: 84937252137     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-015-9803-0     Document Type: Article

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