Various decentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector. However, a key question … willingness to pay for a forest contract. An extended waiting time for rights to harvest the forest reduces a farmer’s perceived …

The forestry literature has sought to describe competitive equilibria by first solving social planning problems. This … Hotelling literature extend to forestry economics: if differing in age, older trees are harvested first; if different in site …

biofuels. However, in a typical boreal forest, it takes 70-120 years before a stand of trees is mature. If this time lag and … increased harvest of a boreal forest creates a biofuel carbon debt that takes 150-230 years to repay. …

This paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest in the presence of a social cost of … the dynamics and interactions of the forest's multiple carbon pools within an infinite time horizon model. With our less …

of the domestic portfolio of compliance activities. We investigate the cost of forest-based carbon sequestration. In … abatement supply function from energy-based analyses, suggesting that forest-based carbon sequestration merits inclusion in a …

increases in natural forest wood costs due to increasing inaccessibility, and rising wood costs from natural forests due to new … environmental restrictions related to logging. Forestry today is on the threshold of the widespread introduction of biotechnology … being utilized in agriculture, such as herbicide-tolerant genes. However, biotechnology in forestry also is developing …