Protected areas as contested spaces: Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia, between 'local people', the state, and NGO engagement

Environmental Development

Volumn 16, Issue , 2015, Pages 63-75

  Kelboro, Girma ^a   Stellmacher, Till ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Land use conflict; National parks; Natural resource management; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947864207     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2015.06.005     Document Type: Article

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