Regional- and district-level drivers of timber harvesting in European Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1290-1300

  Wendland, Kelly J ^a   Lewis, David J ^b   Alix Garcia, Jennifer ^a   Ozdogan, Mutlu ^a   Baumann, Matthias ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Econometrics; Forest disturbance; Land use change; Remote sensing; Russia

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; DECENTRALIZATION; ECONOMETRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FORESTRY POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAND USE CHANGE; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; REMOTE SENSING; TIMBER HARVESTING; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 80052892664     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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