Shades of green: a social scientific view on bioeconomy in the forest sector
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Shades of green: a social scientific view on bioeconomy in the forest sector Daniela Kleinschmit, Berit Hauger Lindstad, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, Anne Toppinen, Anders Roos & Sjur Baardsen a Department of Forest Products, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden b Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway c Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark d Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Accepted author version posted online: 07 May 2014.Published online: 04 Jun 2014.
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