What is tenure security? Conceptual implications for empirical analysis

Land Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-311

  Arnot, Chris D ^a   Luckert, Martin K ^a   Boxall, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; PROPERTY RIGHTS; TENURE SYSTEM;

EID: 84984569910     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.87.2.297     Document Type: Article

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