Population pressure = forest degradation: an oversimplistic equation?
Agrawal, A.
Unasylva English ed 46(181): 50-58
1995
Document Number: 297626
In the light of conflicting literature on the effects of population pressure on resource management and use, and based on an analysis of village-level forest management in Kumaon in the Indian Lesser Himalayas, the relative importance of population pressure, market forces and institutions in relation to forest conditions, is reconsidered.
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