Explaining community-level forest outcomes: Salience, scarcity and rules in eastern Guatemala

Conservation and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 361-381

  Gibson, Clark C ^a   Dodds, David ^b   Turner, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c National Oceanic/Atmospheric Admin   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based conservation; Environment; Forest; Institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007421891     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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