Agents or stewards in community forestry enterprises? Lessons from the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala

Land Use Policy

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 255-265

  Carias Vega, Dora ^a   Keenan, Rodney J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Community forestry enterprises; Embeddedness; Mayan Biosphere Reserve; Principal agent relationships; Stewardship

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLICY APPROACH; POVERTY ALLEVIATION;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MAYA BIOSPHERE RESERVE; PETEN;

EID: 84953232365     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.12.016     Document Type: Article

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