Public views on forest management: Value orientation and forest dependency as indicators of diversity

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 740-749

  McFarlane, Bonita L ^a   Beckley, Thomas M ^b   Huddart Kennedy, Emily ^c   Nadeau, Solange ^a   Wyatt, Stephen ^d  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ECONOMIC INDICATORS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MAIL SURVEYS; PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT; RESOURCE EXTRACTION; VALUE ORIENTATION;

ECONOMICS; FORESTRY;

MANAGEMENT;

BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VALUATION;

CLASSIFICATION; DATA PROCESSING; ECONOMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INDICATORS;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK;

EID: 79953880944     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x11-003     Document Type: Article

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