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Impacts of national forests in the West on county population and employment

Pugliese, Andrew; McCann, Laura; Artz, Georgeanne - In: Forest Policy and Economics 50 (2015) C, pp. 62-69

the amount of land owned by the Forest Service were not found to be significantly related to employment growth. …

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Effects of travel cost and participation in recreational activities on national forest visits

Cho, Seong-Hoon; Bowker, J.M.; English, Donald B.K.; … - In: Forest Policy and Economics 40 (2014) C, pp. 21-30

backpacking-activity participants in the Allegheny national forest. This finding implies that increases in funds allocated towards … visits to the Allegheny national forest caused by the increase in travel cost more than similar increases in funds allocated … to trail and backpacking-activities. These results are important because many national-forest managers are facing …

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Global impacts of Russian log export restrictions and the Canada–U.S. lumber dispute: Modeling trade in logs and lumber

Kooten, G. Cornelis van; Johnston, Craig - In: Forest Policy and Economics 39 (2014) C, pp. 54-66

Forest product trade analysis is complicated by the inter-relationships among forest products. This paper deals with … lumber together, the overall impacts of forest policies in one region are mitigated at the global scale. …

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Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? Evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda

Ainembabazi, John Herbert; Angelsen, Arild - In: Forest Policy and Economics 40 (2014) C, pp. 48-56

This paper investigates if and how the establishment of private commercial forest plantations in degraded forest … collected from intervention and control villages in the neighborhood of forest reserves. We find that commercial forest … plantations are weakly effective in conserving natural forests. The reduction in forest use is unevenly distributed across …

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Does community and household tree planting imply increased use of wood for fuel? Evidence from Ethiopia

Gebreegziabher, Zenebe; Kooten, G. Cornelis van - In: Forest Policy and Economics 34 (2013) C, pp. 30-40

As a result of many years of deforestation, fuelwood scarcity is a critical problem in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian government encouraged afforestation and tree growing at both the community and household levels as a policy to stem deforestation and degradation of agricultural lands. The rationale...

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Faustmann optimal pine stands stochastic rotation problem

Navarrete, Eduardo; Bustos, Jaime - In: Forest Policy and Economics 30 (2013) C, pp. 39-45

the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The application of these models to a Chilean forest company stands, shows …

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Property rights, institutions and choice of fuelwood source in rural Ethiopia

Beyene, Abebe D.; Koch, Steven F. - In: Forest Policy and Economics 30 (2013) C, pp. 30-38

increase household dependency on open access forests, while land security reduces open access forest dependence. However, local … under the management of the community and increase the quality of community forestry management in order to realize … improvements in forest conservation. …

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Modeling optimal pine stands harvest under stochastic wood stock and price in Chile

Navarrete, Eduardo - In: Forest Policy and Economics 15 (2012) C, pp. 54-59

The single and multiple optimal rotation harvesting pine stands models under Logistic wood stock and Brown price stochastic diffusion processes are reformulated as optimal stopping problems with one dimensional stochastic diffusion solvable with the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equations.

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Investing in energy forestry under uncertainty

Di Corato, Luca; Gazheli, Ardjan; Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan - In: Forest Policy and Economics 34 (2013) C, pp. 56-64

used to theoretically frame the decision to switch from agriculture to energy forestry. Optimal investment timing is … modeled and the functioning of government subsidies offered to speed up the switch to energy forestry is analyzed. The … energy forestry with compensation for sewage sludge treatment provides an effective stimulus to investment in new willow …

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Assessing forestry-related assets with the intertemporal capital asset pricing model

Yao, Wenjing; Mei, Bin - In: Forest Policy and Economics 50 (2015) C, pp. 192-199

The intertemporal capital asset pricing model is used to assess the risk–return relationship between forestry … consumption explain about 80% of the variation in cross-sectional returns of 16 forestry-related assets. Beta loadings on … the cross-sectional expected returns of the forestry-related assets. In general, average excess returns of the forestry …

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