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Use of wood fuels from boreal forests will create a biofuel carbon debt with a long payback time

Holtsmark, Bjart - 2010

Owing to the extensive critique of food-crop-based biofuels, attention and hopes have turned toward second-generation wood-based biofuels. An important question is therefore whether wood from boreal forests could serve as a source for biofuels. However, in a typical boreal forest, it takes...

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REDD in Design: Assessment of Planned First-Generation Activities in Indonesia

Myers Madeira, Erin - 2009

Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates how efforts would be implemented and draws lessons from other mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES). However, with few REDD activities underway, little...

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Impacts of Policy Measures on the Development of State-Owned Forests in Northeastern China: Theoretical Results and Empirical Evidence

Jiang, Xuemei; Gong, Peichen; Bostedt, Goran; Xu, Jintao - 2011

State-owned forest enterprises (SOFEs) in northeast China and Inner Mongolia play important roles both in timber production and in the maintenance of ecological security. However, since the late 1970s, forest resource and economic crises have seriously restricted these functions. Based on a...

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Faustmann and the Climate

Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka - 2012

This paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest in the presence of a social cost of carbon emissions. A contribution of the paper is to do this within theoretical and numerical frameworks that take account of the dynamics and interactions of the forest's multiple...

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Optimal harvest age considering multiple carbon pools - a comment

Holtsmark, Bjart; Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Katinka - 2012

In two recent papers, Asante and Armstrong (2012) and Asante et al. (2011) considered the question of optimal harvest ages. They found that the larger are the initial pools of dead organic matter (DOM) and wood products, the shorter is the optimal rotation period. In this note, it is found that...

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Transgenic Trees: Implementation and Outcomes of the Plant Protection Act

Sedjo, Roger - 2004

The responsibility for protecting U.S. agriculture from pests and diseases is assigned by the Federal Plant Pest Act (FPPA) to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture. The Plant Protection Act (Title 7 U.S.C. Sections 7701 et seq.) gives Aphis...

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Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks

Stavins, Robert; Plantinga, Andrew; Lubowski, Ruben - 2005

When and if the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it will be necessary to decide whether carbon sequestration policies — such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation — should be part of the domestic portfolio of compliance...

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Biotechnology's Potential Contribution to Global Wood Supply and Forest Conservation

Sedjo, Roger - 2001

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 … applications unique to forestry, including genes for fiber modification, lignin reduction and extraction, and for the promotion of …

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The Equilibrium Price Path of Timber in the Absence of Replanting

Salant, Stephen - 2012

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 …

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Migration and deforestation in Indonesia

Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan; Nuryartono, Nunung - 2015

Indonesia now has the highest deforestation rate in the world, with an average increase of about 47,600 ha per year. As a result, the nation is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world and putting its rich biodiversity at risk. Although the literature discussing the political...

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