Simulated financial returns and selected environmental impacts from four alternative silvicultural prescriptions applied in the neotropics: A case study of the Chimanes Forest, Bolivia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 89, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 43-57

  Howard, Andrew F ^a   Rice, Richard E ^b   Gullison, R E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b The Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discounted cashflow analysis; Mahogany

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOGGING; MAHOGANY; TIMBER HARVESTING;

BOLIVIA, CHIMANES FOREST;

SWIETENIA;

EID: 0030303437     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(96)03867-4     Document Type: Article

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