Grover, Mansi; Bosch, Darrell J.; Preisley, Stephen P. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005
We evaluate incentives of forest landowners for sequestering and trading carbon, given the risk of carbon loss from … hurricanes, and an opportunity to insure their losses. Results of simulation model reveal that the effect of hurricane risk … depends on the variability of returns from carbon and timber and landowners' ability to mitigate risk by diversifying forest …