Using a geographic information system for applied policy analysis: The case of logging in the Eastern Amazon

Ecological Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-61

  Stone, Steven W ^a  

^a INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Economics; GIS; Modeling; Spatial; Timber

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032191276     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8009(97)00130-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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