Costs and benefits of forest management for timber production in eastern Amazonia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 9-26

  Barreto, Paulo ^a   Amaral, Paulo ^a   Vidal, Edson ^a   Uhl, Christopher ^a,b  

^a IMAZON   (Brazil)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Economics; Forestry; Logging; Management

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; PLOTS; PROFITABILITY; TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY; TIMBER PRODUCTION;

CALCULATIONS; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; RAINFOREST;

SOUTH AMERICA, AMAZONIA;

EID: 0032552070     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00251-X     Document Type: Article

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