Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific … understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area … first unified treatment of climatic factors and human activities that affect forest area burned. …

on a multi-age, multi-species forest in East-Kalimantan to study optimal harvest regimes for Conventional Logging (CL … under sustainable forest management (RIL). According to our detailed data, RIL has higher fixed costs but lower variable …

first postulate the stochastic forest value and assume plausibly that monetary value of amenities is a continuous and non …-negative function of forest value thus presenting the trade-off between timber revenues and amenity values. Second, instead of using a … dynamic programming approach, we derive a recursive representation of the total forest value and solve the optimal rotation …

With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny … by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure … private forest plantations and households in villages adjacent to a state-owned plantation. We use survey data from 338 …

Climate change is predicted to substantially alter forest growth. Optimally, forest owners should take these future …” being fully rational has traction in forestry. …