Interpreting sustainability for urban forests

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1510-1522

  Ordóñez, Camilo ^a   Duinker, Peter N ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Sustainability; Urban forest; Urban forest management; Urban forest sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051755385     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2061510     Document Type: Article

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