Forests to the People: Decentralization and Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  World Development

• Publication date

  2010-11-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.WORLDDEV.2010.03.007
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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