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Articles

Use of the Forest Environment Transfer Tax for forest data development and exchange: evidence from all 47 prefectures in Japan

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Pages 201-212 | Received 08 Jul 2022, Accepted 30 Sep 2022, Published online: 13 Oct 2022

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