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Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana

International Journal of the Commons
Volume 17 (2023): Issue 1
By: Kofi Akamani  
Open Access
|Feb 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1171 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
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Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 27, 2021
Accepted on: Dec 27, 2022
Published on: Feb 9, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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Keywords:
Agroforestry,
Capital assets,
Co-management,
Forest-dependent communities,
Institutions,
Path dependence,
Social-ecological systems,
Taungya

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