New issues in forest land management from an operations research perspective

Interfaces

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 9-25

  Weintraub, Andrés ^a   Bare, B Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0041116940     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.26.5.9     Document Type: Article

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