Testing the applicability of reduced impact logging in greenheart forest in Guyana

International Forestry Review

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 24-32

  Van Der Hout, Peter ^a,b  

^a Tropenbos Guyana Programme   (Guyana)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Greenheart; Group wise felling; Guyana; Logging damage; Reduced impact logging

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOGGING; RAINFOREST;

GUYANA;

CHLOROCARDIUM RODIEI;

EID: 0034089795     PISSN: 14655489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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