An uneven playing field: Regulatory barriers to communities making a living from the timber from their forests-examples from Cambodia, Nepal and Vietnam

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3433-3451

  Gritten, David ^a   Greijmans, Martin ^a   Lewis, Sophie R ^a   Sokchea, Tol ^a   Atkinson, Julian ^a   Quang, Tan Nguyen ^a   Poudyal, Bishnu ^a   Chapagain, Binod ^a   Sapkota, Lok Mani ^a   Mohns, Bernhard ^a   Paudel, Naya Sharma ^b  

^a RECOFTC The Center for People and Forests   (Thailand)

^b ForestAction   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Commercialization; Community forestry; Forest regulations; Livelihoods; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

TIMBER;

COMMERCIALIZATION; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; FOREST REGULATIONS; LIVELIHOODS; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

COMMERCIALIZATION; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SUSTAINABILITY; TIMBER;

CAMBODIA; NEPAL; VIET NAM;

EID: 84946422904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6103433     Document Type: Article

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