Environmental resources conservation through sustainable forest management

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 223 ( 2016 ) 758 – 763

1877-0428 © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of ISTH2020 doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.264

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