Household characteristics and perception of users towards the environmental changes within community forests in the Dhaulagiri hills of Nepal
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چکیده
C forestry in the Hills of Nepal is a more success story in terms of expansion on the forest cover area on the one hand and conservation of bio-diversity on the other. As the spill over effect of the community forestry on sphere like livelihood among others continue, it is less evident that whether forest user’s perception towards change in the crop production, grazing land area, number of tree species, water spring and time spent in collecting firewood and fetching water and on the occurrence of flooding, is well documented.
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