Searching for Leverage to Conserve Forests: The Industrial Ecology of Wood Products in the United States

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 125-145

  Wernick, Iddo K ^a   Waggoner, Paul E ^b   Ausubel, Jesse H ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest land; Forest management; Industrial ecology; Intensity of use; Material efficiency; Timber removals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000197192     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jiec.1997.1.3.125     Document Type: Article

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