Australia's regional forest agreement process: Analysis of the potential and problems

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 579-588

  Musselwhite, Gary ^a   Herath, Gamini ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forest policy; Interest groups; Politics; Public choice; Regional forest agreements

Indexed keywords

FOREST AGREEMENTS; FOREST RESOURCES; FOREST USE;

CONTRACTS; ECOLOGY; HARVESTING; PUBLIC POLICY; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

CONTRACTS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HARVESTING;

EID: 13444283903     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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