Development program for improving wood procurement in Northwest Russia based on SWOT analysis

Baltic Forestry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Gerasimov, Yuri ^a   Karjalainen, Timo ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Environmental; Forest industry investments; Responsibility; Russia; Social responsibility; Trade of industrial round wood; Wood harvesting

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249111679     PISSN: 13921355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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