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Economic and environmental impacts of conventional and reduced-impact logging in Tropical South America: a comparative review

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  • Holmes, Thomas P.
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  • Boltz, Frederick & Holmes, Thomas P. & Carter, Douglas R., 2003. "Economic and environmental impacts of conventional and reduced-impact logging in Tropical South America: a comparative review," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 5(1), pages 69-81, January.
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    1. Boltz, Frederick & Carter, Douglas R. & Holmes, Thomas P. & Pereira, Rodrigo Jr., 2001. "Financial returns under uncertainty for conventional and reduced-impact logging in permanent production forests of the Brazilian Amazon," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 39(3), pages 387-398, December.
    2. Daniel C. Nepstad & Adalberto Verssimo & Ane Alencar & Carlos Nobre & Eirivelthon Lima & Paul Lefebvre & Peter Schlesinger & Christopher Potter & Paulo Moutinho & Elsa Mendoza & Mark Cochrane & Vaness, 1999. "Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire," Nature, Nature, vol. 398(6727), pages 505-508, April.
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