“Investors are good, if they follow the rules” -power relations and local perceptions in the case of two European forestry companies in Tanzania

Geographica Helvetica

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 249-258

  Locher, M ^a   Muller Boker U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; FOOD SAFETY; FORESTRY PRACTICE; INVESTMENT INCENTIVE; LIVELIHOOD; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; POWER RELATIONS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

EUROPE; TANZANIA;

EID: 84984409946     PISSN: 0016-7312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gh-69-249-2014     Document Type: Article

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