Restructuring the Bulgarian wood-processing sector: Linkages between resource exploitation, capital accumulation, and redevelopment in a postcommunist locality

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 607-628

  Staddon, Caedmon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; POST-COMMUNISM; RURAL ECONOMY;

BULGARIA;

EID: 0035022850     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3395     Document Type: Article

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