Recentralizing while decentralizing: How national governments reappropriate forest resources

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  2006

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  World Development

• Publication date

  2006-11-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.WORLDDEV.2005.11.020
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