Economic and environmental impacts of conventional and reduced-impact logging in tropical South America: A comparative review

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-81

  Boltz, Frederick ^a   Holmes, Thomas P ^b   Carter, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Economics; Ecuador; Guyana; Reduced impact logging; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037235584     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9341(01)00075-2     Document Type: Article

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