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Partitioning Commons and Devolving Them from Communal to Sub-Communal Groups: Evidence from China’s Community Forest Management Organizations Cover

Partitioning Commons and Devolving Them from Communal to Sub-Communal Groups: Evidence from China’s Community Forest Management Organizations

By: Zhang Yiwen and  Shashi Kant  
Open Access
|Feb 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.967 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 5, 2019
Accepted on: Oct 27, 2019
Published on: Feb 17, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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