Forest resources, government policy, and investment location decisions of the forest products industry in the southern United States

Forest Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 169-177

  Sun, Changyou ^a   Zhang, Daowei ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental regulatory stringency; Forest based economic development; Industrial recruitment; Tax

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; PUBLIC POLICY;

INVESTMENT LOCATION DECISIONS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0035026371     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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