The Chinese timber trade and the logging of Peruvian Amazonia

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1659-1661

  Putzel, Louis ^a,b   Padoch, Christine ^b   Pinedo Vasquez, Miguel ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LOGGING (TIMBER); TIMBER;

CHINA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; LEGAL ASPECT; PERU; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICS;

CHINA; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTRY; PERU;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 57449110231     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01065.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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