Impacts of community-based natural resource management on wealth, food security and child health in Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Pailler, Sharon ^a   Naidoo, Robin ^b   Burgess, Neil D ^c,d   Freeman, Olivia E ^e   Fisher, Brendan ^b,f  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^c UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; COMMUNITY BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD SECURITY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA; WEALTH; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; CATERING SERVICE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; NATURAL RESOURCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAMPLE SIZE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; FOOD SUPPLY; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURAL RESOURCES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAMPLE SIZE; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84941284389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133252     Document Type: Article

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