We attempt to design a market framework (which we call ECOSEL) for private provision offorest ecosystem services. ECOSEL is a non-regulatory framework that uses a voluntarypublic good provision mechanism (in a form of an auction) in conjunction with a multiobjectiveoptimization algorithm to...

We attempt to design a market framework (which we call ECOSEL) for private provision of forest ecosystem services. ECOSEL is a non-regulatory framework that uses a voluntary public good provision mechanism (in a form of an auction) in conjunction with a multiobjective optimization algorithm to...

This paper is a summary of some of the considerations involved in applying an existing model to a new problem, in particular in deciding whether to update or not, and some of the issues involved in interpreting the output from the new application. Thus where you start from does influence where...