Forest reliance across poverty groups in Tanzania

Ecological Economics

Volumn 117, Issue , 2015, Pages 203-211

  Dokken, Therese ^a   Angelsen, Arild ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Asset poverty; Cross sectional data; Forest dependence; Poverty categories

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREST RESOURCE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; POVERTY;

TANZANIA;

EID: 84938061707     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.06.006     Document Type: Article

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