Certification on public and university lands: Evaluations of FSC and SFI by the forest managers

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 21-25

  Sample, V Alaric ^a   Price, Will ^a   Mater, Catherine M ^b  

^a Pinchot Institute for Conservation   (United States)

^b Mater Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Public forests; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CERTIFICATION PROCESSES;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; SUSTAINABILITY; TIMBER CERTIFICATION;

EID: 0347382674     PISSN: 00221201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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