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 …

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 …

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. …

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

with access to sanitation and hygiene. Finally, both direct and indirect risks associated with flood and drought on health …

In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the … flood's economic impacts. In 2012, households answered a set of questions on the extent of flooding they experienced. We use … this self-identified flood exposure, and external exposure indicators from satellite images, to identify both directly …

This paper analyzes socially optimal forest taxation when the government has a binding tax revenue requirement. In the … Faustmann model the optimal design of forest taxation consists of non-distortionary taxes, such as site productivity tax, site …

, cash flow tax and tax on interest rate earnings on the privately optimal rotation period when forest value growth is … stochastic and forest owners are either risk neutral or risk averse. In the case of risk-neutral forest owner higher yield tax … function of the yield tax and the forest value volatility increases more rapidly under risk neutrality than under risk aversion. …

panel data in a setting with many covariates. Our method, which we name the dynamic causal forest (DCF) method, extends the … causal-forest method of Wager and Athey (2018) by allowing for the estimation of dynamic treatment effects in a difference …