Forest owners' participation in voluntary biodiversity conservation: What does it take to forgo forestry for eternity?

Land Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 235-251

  Mitani, Yohei ^a,b   Lindhjem, Henrik ^c,d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d VISTA   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

EID: 84929672196     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.91.2.235     Document Type: Article

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