U.S. home-center retailer attitudes, perceptions and behaviors regarding forest certification

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 21-25

  Perera, Priyan ^a,c   Vlosky, Richard P ^a,c   Dunn, Michael A ^a   Hughes, Glenn ^b  

^a Louisiana State Univ Agri Center

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOREST PRODUCTS SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS; FOREST CERTIFICATION;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; WOOD PRODUCTS;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; LEGISLATION; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 42149087635     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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