| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Although little is known about the economic benefits for rural economies from forests, a preliminary study reported in Nature (Peters, Gentry and Mendelsohn, 1989) concludes that the Peruvian Amazon rain forest could be of much greater economic worth if it were to be managed on a sustained basis rather than harvested and converted to other uses, such as forest plantations or pasture.
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