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Loopholes in Forestland Conversion Policy and Traditional Consumption of Endangered Timber as Driving Factors of Illegal Logging – The Case in Vietnam Cover

Loopholes in Forestland Conversion Policy and Traditional Consumption of Endangered Timber as Driving Factors of Illegal Logging – The Case in Vietnam

By: Cao Ngoc Anh  
Open Access
|Apr 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjls-2021-0016 | Journal eISSN: 2719-3004 | Journal ISSN: 2719-5872
Language: English
Page range: 98 - 114
Published on: Apr 13, 2022
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