The harvesting behaviour of Irish private forest owners

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 513-517

  Ní Dhubháin, Áine ^a   Maguire, Karl ^b   Farrelly, Niall ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Private Forestry Consultant   (Ireland)

^c TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Extension; Non industrial private forest owners; Production targets; Thinning

Indexed keywords

EXTENSION; FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; FOREST COVER; FOREST OWNERS; IRELAND; IRISH GOVERNMENT; NON-INDUSTRIAL PRIVATE FOREST OWNERS; PRIVATE FOREST OWNERS; PRODUCTION TARGETS; STATE FORESTS; THINNING; TIMBER PRODUCTION;

HARVESTING; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HARVESTING; IRELAND; PRODUCTION; THINNING;

EID: 77955920862     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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