Unasylva - No. 134 - China's environment policy













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An international journal of the forestry and food industries - Vol. 33 - 1981

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

TROPICAL FOREST RESOURCES regional and world assessments

4 important reports

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COVER DESIGN by ROBERT DICKERSON

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Qu Geping and Li Jinchan
Environmental management in China

Dwight Hair
The prospective renewable resource situation in the United States

J. D. Keita
Plantations in the Sahel

Dale V. Shaller
The sociology of a stove

Philip Thresher
The economics of a lion

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All about Eucalyptus seed
Poplars and willows
Studies of Gmelina arborea

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