Returns from harvesting a commercial non-timber forest product and particular characteristics of harvesters and their strategies: Aquilaria crassna and agarwood in Lao PDR1

Economic Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-45

  Jensen, Anders ^a   Meilby, Henrik ^a  

^a DANISH FOREST LANDSCAPE RES INST   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agarwood; Aquilaria; Eaglewood; Laos; Non timber forest products; Poverty; Trade

Indexed keywords

AQUILARIA; AQUILARIA CRASSNA;

EID: 77954034518     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-010-9108-1     Document Type: Article

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