National forest economic clusters: A new model for assessing national-forest-based natural resources products and services

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Volumn , Issue 703 PNW-GTR, 2007, Pages 1-37

  Rojas, Thomas D ^a  

^a Department of Planning and Development for the City of Seattle ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Economic cluster theory; Innovation; National forest based communities; Productivity

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; INNOVATION; MICROECONOMICS; NATIONAL ECONOMY; NATURAL RESOURCE; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 34247213944     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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