What are the environmental impacts of property rights regimes in forests, fisheries and rangelands?

Environmental Evidence

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Ojanen, Maria ^a   Zhou, Wen ^a   Miller, Daniel C ^b   Nieto, Sue Helen ^a   Mshale, Baruani ^a   Petrokofsky, Gillian ^c  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental governance; Environmental impacts; Fisheries; Forests; Natural resources management; Property rights; Rangelands; Tenure

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019602490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13750-017-0090-2     Document Type: Review

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