Poverty and Employment in Forest-Dependent Counties

Forest Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 763-777

  Berck, Peter ^a   Costello, Christopher ^b   Fortmann, Louise ^a   Hoffmann, Sandra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest policy; Old growth; Vector autoregressive analysis

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EMPLOYMENT; PUBLIC POLICY;

POVERTY;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0142095198     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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