Poor regulatory capacity limits the ability of science to influence the management of mahogany

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 395-405

  Blundell, Arthur G ^a   Gullison, Raymond E ^b  

^a AAAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Certification; Chain of custody; Consumer choice; Forest product; Illegal logging; Latin America; Meliaceae; Neotropics; Swietenia macrophylla

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PUBLIC POLICY; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; RESEARCH;

SPECIES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

MELIACEAE; SWIETENIA; SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA;

EID: 0344100127     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9341(03)00038-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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