This paper deals with private forest owners' insurance demand against forest fire risk. Econometric analysis is realized on a sample of forest owners from Aquitaine. It allows identifying determinants of participation to insurance from determinants explaining the difference of willingness-to-pay...

The objective of the paper is to analyze the risk management behavior of a non-industrial private forest owner under uncertainty about the timber production. Two types of hedging strategies with harvesting decisions are studied: a financial practice versus a physical one. We develop a two-period...