Rights to Benefit from Forest? A Case Study of the Timber Harvest Quota System in Southwest China

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 448-461

  He, Jun ^a,b  

^a YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) East and Central Asia   (China)

Author keywords

access; benefit sharing; commodity chain; elite capture; forest tenure rights; harvest quota; rent seeking

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMMODITY MARKET; DEVELOPING WORLD; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; QUOTA SYSTEM; TIMBER HARVESTING;

CHINA;

EID: 84958051011     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1062949     Document Type: Article

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