Productivity enhancement and natural resource management

International Research on Natural Resource Management: Advances in Impact Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 21-55

  Zilberman, David ^a   Waibel, Hermann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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