Do pollutant-related forest declines threaten the sustainability of forests?

Ambio

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-131

  Freer Smith, Peter H ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREST DECLINE; POLLUTION IMPACT; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0031921921     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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33. This study was originally prepared under contract to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), as a draft submitted to the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development for the preparation of its second session (Geneva, 11-22 March 1996).
34. Advice and help with the preparation of this article from J.B.Ball of FAO's Forest Resources Division are gratefully acknowledged.
35. First submitted 22 April 1996. Accepted for publication after revision 11 October 1996.