The Importance of Inequality for Natural Resource Governance: Evidence from Two Nicaraguan Territories

World Development

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-84

  Ravnborg, Helle Munk ^a   Gómez, Ligia Ivette ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Denmark)

^b IXMATI Instituto Centroamericano para el Desarrollo de Capacidades Humanas   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Central America; District; Institutional practices; Natural resource governance; Nicaragua

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RURAL PLANNING; TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT;

NICARAGUA;

EID: 84937919813     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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