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Type:
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Journal Article |
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Author:
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Ostrom, Elinor; Nagendra, Harini |
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Journal:
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Current Conservation |
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Volume:
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2 |
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Date:
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2008 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3076
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Social Organization
Forestry |
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Subject(s):
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forests
trees
natural resources
sustainability
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Abstract:
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"Governing natural resources sustainably is a continuing struggle. Major debates occur over what types of policy interventions best protect forests, with the types of property and land tenure systems being central issues. Evaluating the impacts of different tenure regimes in a systematic manner is not an easy task. Ecological systems rarely exist isolated from human use. The challenge of good scientific observation of linked socialecological systems is made even more difficult because relevant variables operate at different scales and their impacts differ radically. We provide an overview of findings from a long-term interdisciplinary, multiscale, international research program that studies factors affecting forest cover. We describe insights obtained from a series of explorations from the air (landscape scale), on the ground (forest-patch scale), and in the lab."
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