Provides an assessment of the international forest regime, in reponse to calls from many quarters, including the UN Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF) and

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In recent decades, globalization and internationalization led to an increase in the number of international regimes attempting to influence national behaviour o

Lee Frelich provides a major contribution to the study of temperate-zone forest dynamics by considering three important themes: the combined influence of wind,

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