Assessing natural forest management as a tool for tropical forest conservation

Ambio

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 382-386

  Reid, John W ^a   Rice, Richard E ^b  

^a Conservation International ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FOREST CONSERVATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; LOGGING; LOGGING IMPACT; MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; SUSTAINABLE USE; TROPICS;

EID: 0030882505     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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