Timber production versus old-growth preservation with endogenous prices and forest age-classes

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1296-1310

  Tahvonen, Olli ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TIMBER;

FOREST RESEARCH; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS;

FORESTRY;

AGE STRUCTURE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; MODEL; TIMBER;

COMPUTATION; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MODELS; PLANTS;

EID: 4544388335     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X04-006     Document Type: Article

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