"Institutional shopping" for natural resource management in a protected area and indigenous territory in the Bolivian Amazon

Human Organization

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 218-229

  Wartmann, Flurina M ^a   Haller, Tobias ^b   Backhaus, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforest; Conservation; Indigenous peoples; Institutional change; Madidi protected area; Takana

Indexed keywords

INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE CONSERVATION; PROTECTED AREA; RAINFOREST; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TERRITORY;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA; LA PAZ [BOLIVIA]; MADIDI NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 84986879718     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-75.3.218     Document Type: Article

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