'Back to nature' - A sustainable future for forestry?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 179, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 559-571

  Gamborg, Christian ^a   Larsen, Jørgen Bo ^b  

^a DANISH FOREST LANDSCAPE RES INST   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Forest management; Nature based silviculture; Philosophy; Sustainability; Values

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

SILVICULTURE;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 0038721193     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00553-4     Document Type: Article

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