A Sustainable Forest Future?
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1 Department of Economics, University College London, Gower St, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. E mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL 32611, USA and CIFOR, PO Box 6596 JKPWB, Jakarta 10065, Indonesia. E-mail: [email protected] 3 School of Resource Science and Management, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, Australia. E-mail: [email protected]
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